57-39.21 - Duty to file declaration of land use restriction. - Virginia Statutes

§ 57-39.21. Duty to file declaration of land use restriction.

The owner of any land used or to be used as a pet cemetery shall file in theoffice of the clerk of the circuit court for the locality where the land islocated a declaration restricting the use of the land to use as a petcemetery. The owner shall execute the declaration in the same manner and withthe same effect as a conveyance of an interest in land. The clerk shallrecord the declaration in the deed book and index it in the name of theowner. The restriction established in such a recorded declaration may beremoved only as provided in § 57-39.24. Unless a restriction is so removed,no person shall use land restricted pursuant to this section for any purposeother than as a pet cemetery.

(1996, c. 957.)