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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 597 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1982 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 9 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1986, chapter 21; in 1988, chapter 116; in 1992, chapter 478; in 1996, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?961+ful+CHAP0231\">231<\/a>; in 1997, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0224\">224<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0902\">902<\/a>; in 1998, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?981+ful+CHAP0075\">75<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?981+ful+CHAP0872\">872<\/a>; in 1999, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?991+ful+CHAP0133\">133<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?991+ful+CHAP0163\">163<\/a>; in 2000, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?001+ful+CHAP0440\">440<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?001+ful+CHAP0446\">446<\/a>; in 2014, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0338\">338<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":72471,"section_number":"17.1-227.1","catch_line":"Use of cover sheets on deeds or other instruments by circuit court clerks","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-227.1\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":163193,"object_type":"law","relational_id":54968,"identifier":"17.1-252","token":"17.1\/2\/3\/17.1-252","url":"\/17.1-252\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/17.1-252\/","token":"17.1\/2\/3\/17.1-252","dublin_core":{"Title":"Indexing by tax map reference number","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 17.1-252","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p><span class=\"dictionary\">Circuit<\/span> <span class=\"dictionary\">court<\/span> clerks in those localities with a unique parcel identification system shall require that any deed or other instrument conveying or relating to an interest in real property bear, on the first page of the deed or other instrument, or state in the cover sheet submitted with the deed or other instrument, the tax map reference number or numbers, or the parcel identification number (PIN) or numbers, of the affected parcel or parcels. 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Upon\nadmitting the deed or other instrument to record, the clerk may, in addition to\nany other indexing required by law, index the deed or other instrument by the\ntax map reference number or numbers or by the parcel identification number or\nnumbers.\n\nHISTORY: 1982, c. 597, \u00a7 17-79.3; 1986, c. 21; 1988, c. 116; 1992, c. 478;\n1996, c. 231; 1997, cc. 224, 902; 1998, cc. 75, 872; 1999, cc. 133, 163; 2000,\ncc. 440, 446; 2014, c. 338.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}