18VAC48-30-50: Exemptions from registration

A. The exemption from registration of condominiums in which all units are restricted to nonresidential use provided in subsection B of § 55.1-1972 of the Code of Virginia shall not be deemed to apply to any condominium as to which there is a substantial possibility that a unit therein other than a unit owned by the declarant or the unit owners' association will be used as permanent or temporary living quarters or as a site upon which vehicular or other portable living quarters will be placed and occupied. Residential use for the purposes of this chapter includes transient occupancy.

B. Nothing in this chapter shall apply in the case of a condominium exempted from registration by § 55.1-1972 of the Code of Virginia or condominiums located outside of Virginia as provided in subsection B of § 55.1-1901 of the Code of Virginia for which no contracts are to be signed in Virginia.