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VA Code § 17.1-206 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-206. Where offices to be located

The clerk's office of every circuit court, or any division thereof, of any county or city shall be kept at the courthouse of such county or city, unless there is a failure by the proper authorities to provide an office there, in which case the clerk's office may be kept at such other place within the county or city as the court may direct. However, nothing in this section shall prohibit the establishment of a clerk's office satellite facility or annex which is not located at the courthouse; provided that recording of all land records, docketing of all monetary judgments, filing of U.C.C. financing statements, and filing of matters at law and in equity shall be conducted at the courthouse location. All expenses related to the establishment and operation of a satellite facility or annex shall be the responsibility of the locality.Code 1919, § 3385, § 17-40; 1938, p. 132; 1973, c. 406; 1997, c. 325; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-210 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-210. Removal of records or papers prohibited; exceptions

None of the records or papers of a circuit court shall be removed by the clerk nor allowed by him to be removed out of the county or city wherein the clerk's office is kept, except: (i) on the order of the court or judge; (ii) the clerk, court or judge may allow the records and papers of a pending case to be removed by an attorney of record in that case to any location within the Commonwealth unless the court or judge shall enter an order prohibiting the removal of such records or paper; (iii) on an occasion of invasion or insurrection, when, in the opinion of the court, or, in a very sudden case, of the clerk, the same will be endangered, after which they shall be returned as soon as the danger ceases; and (iv) in such other cases as are specially provided for by law.Code 1919, § 3387, § 17-45; 1973, c. 54; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-211 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-211. Maintenance and disposition of certain receipt books, cancelled checks and statements

The clerk of each court of record shall maintain in his office all official receipt books showing receipt of any funds in his custody or that of the court, all canceled checks showing payments from any such funds, and all statements of bank accounts in which funds of the clerk's office or of the court are deposited. Such books, checks and statements shall be maintained until they have been audited by the Auditor of Public Accounts, and for a further period of three years, in the case of receipt books, canceled checks, and bank statements. Thereafter, the clerk may destroy such records in accordance with retention regulations for records maintained by the clerk established under the Virginia Public Records Act (§ 42.1-76 et seq.).1962, c. 445, § 17-46.1; 1981, c. 637; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-212 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-212. Copying of records becoming illegible

The judge or, if so designated by the judge, the clerk of each court of record, when satisfied that the records and papers in the office of the clerk of court are becoming illegible or are wearing out and is of the opinion that the same should be preserved, may order the records and papers copied or photographed or otherwise duplicated at the expense of the county or city in which the clerk's office is located.The copies of the records and papers shall be examined and compared by the clerk with the originals and when he is satisfied that the copies are exact he shall certify them as true copies. The certified copies shall be kept in the same place in which the originals are kept and the latter shall continue to be carefully preserved.1944, p. 195, § 17-47; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 3387a; 1997, c. 836; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-214 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-214. Clerk to deliver or send process to sheriff

The clerk of the circuit court from whose office may be issued any process, original, mesne or final, or any order or decree to be served on any person, shall, unless the party interested, or his attorney, direct otherwise, deliver the same to the sheriff of the county or city for which the court is held, if it is to be executed therein, and if it is to be executed in any other county or city, shall enclose the same to the sheriff thereof, properly addressed, put it in the post office and pay the postage thereon.Code 1919, § 3403, § 17-50; 1946, p. 54; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-215 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-215. Process book

The clerk of a circuit court shall keep a process book or file or, in lieu thereof, an automated system, in which the clerk shall enter every such process, order or decree, showing its nature, date, return day and the person to whom, and the time when, it was delivered, or, if it was mailed, the time thereof and the person to whom it was addressed. From any officer, to whom there is such delivery, the clerk shall take a receipt in the process book or file or enter the receipt on the automated system.Code 1919, § 3403, § 17-51; 1946, p. 54; 1989, c. 137; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-216 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-216. Handling fee for service of process

The fee for serving such process, order or decree may be delivered to the clerk, who shall transmit it with the papers to be served to the sheriff and the fee paid shall be taxed by the clerk as a part of the costs of the proceeding.Code 1919, § 3403, § 17-52; 1946, p. 55; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-217 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-217. Power of clerk to administer oath

Any clerk of a court may administer an oath in any case wherein an affidavit is necessary or proper as the foundation of an official act to be performed by him.Code 1919, § 3389, § 17-53; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-219 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-219. Clerk to prepare bonds

Every clerk of a court of record shall prepare, in a proper manner, any bond to be taken by, or given before, him or his court or the judge thereof.Code 1919, § 3390, § 17-55; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-219.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-219.1. Transportation orders; authorization for clerk to issue orders to custodian

In a criminal proceeding, upon authorization by the judge, the clerk of a circuit court may issue orders for commitment of the defendant or orders for release of the defendant to the appropriate custodian when the judge has ordered the defendant (i) to be committed to custody upon a denial of bail, upon a revocation of bail or upon a change in bail condition, (ii) to be continued in custody upon a continuance of the proceeding, or (iii) to be released upon meeting bail requirements, upon being sentenced to time already served or upon being found not guilty.2002, c. 832.
VA Code § 17.1-220 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-220. Duplicate certificate of allowance prohibited, unless ordered by court

Upon proof by the oath of a party or otherwise of the loss or destruction of an original certificate of any allowance to be paid out of the state treasury, the court shall order a duplicate which shall show on its face that it is a duplicate issued by order of the court.Code 1919, § 3404, § 17-56; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-221 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-221. Reports by clerks of the business of courts of record

The clerk of each court of record in this Commonwealth, including the clerk of the Court of Appeals, within fifteen days from the end of each calendar month, shall make to the Supreme Court a report of the business disposed of by his court during the month just ended. The report shall be made upon a form furnished by the Executive Secretary and shall contain such information as the Supreme Court deems proper to enable it to gain a fair knowledge of the business of the several courts of the Commonwealth.The reports shall be filed in the office of the Executive Secretary and the General Assembly or any other body or officer of this Commonwealth shall have access thereto.Code 1919, § 3405, § 17-57; 1928, p. 1121; 1938, p. 129; 1944, p. 131; 1964, c. 10; 1984, c. 703; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-222 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-222. Failure to make report

The Executive Secretary, at the direction of the Court, shall report every clerk who fails to make the report mentioned in § 17.1-221 to the chief judge of the clerk's court.Code 1919, § 3406, § 17-58; 1938, p. 130; 1964, c. 10; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-222.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-222.1. Collection of fees, etc., by court clerks in lieu of money

The clerks of the several courts of the Commonwealth may, in lieu of money, collect or secure all fees, and fines and penalties collected for offenses committed against the Commonwealth or against any county, city or town, and for payment of spousal or child support, by any means provided in § 2.2-614.1. Such clerks shall not by virtue of acceptance of any such payment be held to be guarantors of the payment thereof, but they shall exercise ordinary care in such acceptance.1977, c. 139, § 14.1-3.1; 1978, c. 117; 1998, c. 872; 2002, c. 719.
VA Code § 17.1-224 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-224. Copy of illegible instrument used for making permanent record

In offices of clerks of courts of record in which instruments are recorded by any photographic or electronic imaging process, the clerk may, in the event any such instrument is in such condition that a perfect and legible record cannot be produced by such process, make and certify a copy of such instrument, for which he shall be entitled to such fees as are prescribed by law for making and certifying copies of instruments, and use such copy for making permanent records of his office by such photographic or electronic imaging process. Such original instrument shall be preserved in the clerk's office, in the same manner as is prescribed by law for preserving wills.1948, p. 776; Michie Suppl. 1948, § 3387b, § 17-59.1; 1998, c. 872; 2010, cc. 717, 760.
VA Code § 17.1-225 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-225. Remote access to nonconfidential court records

The clerk of the circuit court of any county or city may provide remote access, including Internet access, to all nonconfidential court records on an automated case management or other system maintained by his office and described in § 17.1-242. The clerk shall be responsible for insuring that proper security measures are implemented and maintained to prevent remote access users from obtaining any data that are confidential under this Code and to prevent the modification or destruction of any records by remote access users. For purposes of this section, remote access users are those individuals who are not employees of the clerk's office. Secure remote access to land records shall be governed by § 17.1-294.1985, c. 489, § 17-59.2; 1993, c. 445; 1997, c. 413; 1998, c. 872; 2001, c. 497; 2008, cc. 823, 833; 2014, c. 460.
VA Code § 17.1-226 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-226. Remote access to certain agencies from clerk of court

The governing body of any locality may give the clerk of its circuit court information from local agencies that the clerk may provide to remote access users.1985, c. 489, § 17-59.3; 1998, c. 872; 2008, cc. 823, 833.
VA Code § 17.1-227 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-227. Documents to be recorded in deed books; social security numbers

All deeds, deeds of trust, deeds of release, certificates of satisfaction or certificates of partial satisfaction, quitclaim deeds, homestead deeds, grants, transfers and mortgages of real estate, releases of such mortgages, powers of attorney to convey real estate, leases of real estate, notices of lis pendens and all contracts in reference to real estate, which have been acknowledged as required by law, and certified copies of final judgments or decrees of partition affecting the title or possession of real estate, any part of which is situated in the county or city in which it is sought to be recorded, and all other writings relating to or affecting real estate which are authorized to be recorded, shall, unless otherwise provided, be recorded in a book to be known as the deed book. All deeds, deeds of trust, deeds of release, quitclaim deeds, grants, transfers, and mortgages of real estate or any addendum or memorandum relating to any of these instruments submitted for recordation in the deed books of the appropriate office of the clerk of court shall be prepared according to the requirements for deeds and deeds of trust as set forth in §§ 55.1-300 and 55.1-316, as applicable. The clerk may refuse to accept any instrument submitted for recordation that includes a social security number. However, the attorney or party who prepares or submits the instrument has responsibility for ensuring that the social security number is removed from the instrument prior to the instrument being submitted for recordation. The clerk shall be immune from suits arising from the recordation of any document, or the content of any document recorded, in the land records pursuant to this or any other applicable provision of this Code unless the clerk was grossly negligent or engaged in willful misconduct. Each instrument shall be indexed under all such names in accordance with the provisions of § 17.1-249.Code 1919, § 3393, § 17-60; 1920, p. 313; 1932, p. 333; 1975, c. 469; 1976, c. 561; 1977, c. 282; 1990, c. 374; 1994, c. 64; 1997, c. 579; 1998, c. 872; 2003, cc. 862, 914, 918; 2004, c. 352; 2014, c. 338.
VA Code § 17.1-228 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-228. Recording releases of deeds of trust, partial releases of deeds of trust, court ordered releases, or other liens or assignments in cities and counties using microfilm

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the writings required by law to be recorded in the deed book in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of any city or county are recorded by a microphotographic process or by any other method or process which renders impractical or impossible the subsequent entering of marginal notations upon a recorded instrument, an appropriate certificate, certificate of satisfaction, certificate of partial satisfaction, certified copy of order, or other separate instrument setting forth the necessary information shall be recorded and indexed according to law.When existing deed books in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of any county or city are to be microfilmed or digitally reproduced for security purposes, the clerk may provide that marginal notations to accomplish the release of deeds of trust or other liens shall not be made in such deed book so microfilmed or digitally reproduced.1975, c. 469, § 17-60.1; 1978, c. 629; 1991, c. 414; 1998, c. 872; 2008, cc. 823, 833.
VA Code § 17.1-229 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-229. Additional documents to be recorded in deed book

All deeds, homestead deeds and leases of personal property, bills of sale, and all other contracts or liens as to personal property, which are by law required or permitted to be recorded, all mechanics' liens, all other liens not directed to be recorded elsewhere and all other writings relating to or affecting personal property which are authorized to be recorded shall, unless otherwise provided, be recorded in the deed book and shall be indexed in the general index book; provided, however, the clerk may reject any writing for recordation that is not specifically authorized by law and set out in the Code of Virginia.Code 1919, § 3393, § 17-61; 1920, p. 313; 1932, p. 333; 1985, c. 392; 1998, c. 872; 2010, c. 352.
VA Code § 17.1-230 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-230. Documents to be recorded in bond book

All bonds taken of officers, executors, administrators, trustees or other fiduciaries and all bonds of commissioners and receivers, and all suspending bonds, appeal bonds, injunction bonds, attachment bonds, cost bonds, and all other bonds required to be recorded, shall be recorded in a book known as the bond book.Code 1919, § 3393, § 17-62; 1920, p. 313; 1932, p. 333; 1981, c. 295; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-231 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-231. Documents to be recorded in will book

All wills, inventories, appraisements, lists of sales and settlements of accounts of executors, administrators, curators, trustees or other fiduciaries shall be recorded in a book to be known as the will book. Provided, that the judges of the several courts of the Commonwealth before whom fiduciaries qualify may, by order, prescribe that inventories, appraisements, accounts of sale and settlement of accounts of fiduciaries, together with all reports and decrees or orders, or portions thereof, proper to be recorded therewith, shall be recorded either in the current will book or in a book to be kept by the clerk for that purpose. Such courts may prescribe that the settlements of accounts of fiduciaries be recorded in the mode prescribed by § 64.2-1214.Code 1919, § 3393, § 17-63; 1920, p. 313; 1932, p. 333; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-232 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-232. What to be recorded in judgment docket

Abstracts of all judgments authorized or required by law to be docketed or recorded shall be recorded in a book to be known as the judgment docket.Code 1919, § 3393, § 17-64; 1920, p. 314; 1932, p. 334; 1998, c. 872; 2002, c. 832.
VA Code § 17.1-233 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-233. What to be recorded in marriage register

All marriage licenses and all matters relating to marriages required or authorized to be recorded under § 20-20 shall be recorded in a book to be known as the marriage register.Code 1919, § 3393, § 17-65; 1920, p. 314; 1932, p. 334; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-234 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-234. Documents to be recorded in "writings partially proved."

All deeds and other instruments which have been only partially proved shall be recorded in a separate book to be known as "writings partially proved."Code 1919, § 3393, § 17-66; 1920, p. 314; 1932, p. 334; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-235 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-235. Recordation of federal farm loan mortgages

The clerks of the circuit courts shall keep a separate book, which shall be known as the federal farm loan mortgage book, in which shall be recorded mortgages executed to secure the payment of loans made by federal land banks under authority of the act of Congress, approved July 17, 1916, known as the Federal Farm Loan Act, which mortgages, when so recorded in such book shall be indexed in the proper general index book, as well as in the index to such farm loan mortgage book; provided that any such clerk instead of providing such separate book may immediately spread upon the book in which deeds are recorded in his office any and all proper mortgages or deeds of trust executed to secure such loans and all of such mortgages and deeds of trust shall be immediately spread upon such records when received, so that the original thereof may be returned to the federal land bank as soon as possible.1918, p. 437, § 17-67; Michie Code 1942, § 3393b; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-236 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-236. Recordation of plats and maps

All plats and maps may in the discretion of the clerks of the several circuit courts be recorded in a book to be known as the plat book. In case of such recordation of any plat or map which is attached to or made a part of any deed, deed of trust or writing which is recorded in the deed book, an appropriate note shall be made on the deed book where such deed, deed of trust or other writing is recorded, referring to the plat book and page where the plat or map is recorded and the clerk shall endorse on the plat and plat book the date of the recordation and a reference by book and page to the recorded instrument of which it is a part and shall sign the certificate. In those courts where deeds and other writings are recorded by a procedural microfilm recording system, all plats shall be recorded with the deeds and other writings and indexed in the general index to deeds. Wherever plats are maintained singly, as in a cabinet or on microfilm aperture cards, they shall be cross-referenced with the deed books in the same manner as prescribed herein when plats are recorded in a separate plat book. All plats submitted for recordation shall meet the standards for plats as adopted under § 42.1-82 of the Virginia Public Records Act (§ 42.1-76 et seq.).1918, p. 504, § 17-68; Michie Code 1942, § 3393a; 1944, p. 472; 1983, c. 180; 1998, c. 872.
VA Code § 17.1-237 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 17.1 - Courts of Record|Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records|§ 17.1-237. Validation of recordations in certain plat books

All books in which prior to June 24, 1944, plats were recorded separately from the deed books in all the clerks' offices of this Commonwealth are hereby validated and made parts of the official records of the offices.1918, p. 504, § 17-69; Michie Code 1942, § 3393a; 1944, p. 472; 1998, c. 872.