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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>345331</law_id><section_number>10.1-1015</section_number><catch_line>Conveyance to the Commonwealth</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="38" identifier="10.1">Conservation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Activities Administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="14" identifier="10.1">Virginia Conservation Easement Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever any <span class="dictionary">holder</span> as defined in this chapter, or the successors or assigns thereof, shall cease to exist, any <span class="dictionary">conservation easement</span> and any right of enforcement held by it shall vest in the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, unless the instrument creating the easement otherwise provides for its transfer to some other <span class="dictionary">holder</span> or <span class="dictionary">public body</span>. In an easement vested in the Virginia Outdoors Foundation by operation of the preceding sentence, the Foundation may retain it or thereafter convey it to any other <span class="dictionary">public body</span> or any <span class="dictionary">holder</span> the Foundation deems most appropriate to hold and enforce such interest in accordance with the purpose of the original conveyance of the easement.</p></section></text><history>1988, cc. 720, 891.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
