§ 55.1-663 Recording of electronic documents among the land records
A. A clerk of a circuit court who implements an eRecording System shall do so in compliance with standards established by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency.
B. A clerk of a circuit court may receive, index, store, archive, and transmit electronic land records.
C. A clerk of a circuit court may provide for access to, and for search and retrieval of, land records by electronic means.
D. A clerk of a circuit court who accepts electronic documents for recording among the land records shall continue to accept paper land records and shall place entries for both types of land records in the same indices.
E. A clerk of a circuit court may convert paper records accepted for recording into electronic form. The clerk of circuit court may convert into electronic form land records documents recorded before the clerk of circuit court began to record electronic records.
F. Any fee or tax that a clerk of circuit court is authorized to collect may be collected electronically.
History
This law was first created in 2006. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 745 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2019, chapter 712.
2006, c. 745, § 55-142.12; 2019, c. 712.