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I, c. 124.","full_text":"A\n\nA clerk of the circuit court who provides secure remote access to land records pursuant to § 17.1-294 may charge a fee as provided in this section. The fee shall be paid to the clerk’s office and deposited by the clerk into the clerk’s nonreverting local fund to be used to cover operational expenses as defined in § 17.1-295. The clerk may charge a flat clerk’s fee to be assessed for each subscriber, as defined in § 17.1-295, in an amount not to exceed $50 per month and a separate fee per image downloaded in an amount not to exceed the fee provided in subdivision A 8 of § 17.1-275. The clerk’s fees shall be used to cover operational expenses as defined in § 17.1-295.\n\t\t\tThe Office of the Attorney General, the Division of Debt Collection, the Department of Transportation, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, the Department of Historic Resources, the Department of General Services, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Forestry, the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, and the State Corporation Commission shall be exempt from paying any fee for remote access to land records. If any clerk contracts with an outside vendor to provide remote access to land records to subscribers, such contract shall contain a provision exempting the Office of the Attorney General, the Division of Debt Collection, the Department of Transportation, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, the Department of Historic Resources, the Department of General Services, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Forestry, the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, and the State Corporation Commission from paying any access or subscription fee.B\n\nThe circuit court clerk shall enter into an agreement with each person whom the clerk authorizes to have remote access, in accordance with the security standards established by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. Any such agreement between a state agency or employee thereof acting in the employee’s official capacity and the clerk or an outside vendor contracted by the clerk to provide remote access to land records to subscribers, or such an agreement between a state agency or employee thereof acting in the employee’s official capacity and both the clerk and the outside vendor, shall not contain any provision requiring the state agency or employee thereof acting in the employee’s official capacity to indemnify the clerk or the vendor. Any such agreement between a state agency and the clerk or an outside vendor shall provide that the state agency is required to monitor its employees’ activity under such agreement to ensure compliance with its terms.C\n\nThe clerk may establish a program under which the clerk assesses a reasonable convenience fee that shall not exceed $2 per transaction for remote access to land records and a separate fee per image downloaded in an amount not to exceed the fee provided in subdivision A 8 of § 17.1-275.D\n\nNothing herein shall be construed to require the use by the general public of the secure remote access to land records made available by the clerk, and such records may continue to be accessed in person in the clerk’s office.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":219063,"text":"A clerk of the circuit court who provides secure remote access to land records pursuant to § 17.1-294 may charge a fee as provided in this section. The fee shall be paid to the clerk’s office and deposited by the clerk into the clerk’s nonreverting local fund to be used to cover operational expenses as defined in § 17.1-295. The clerk may charge a flat clerk’s fee to be assessed for each subscriber, as defined in § 17.1-295, in an amount not to exceed $50 per month and a separate fee per image downloaded in an amount not to exceed the fee provided in subdivision A 8 of § 17.1-275. The clerk’s fees shall be used to cover operational expenses as defined in § 17.1-295.\n\t\t\tThe Office of the Attorney General, the Division of Debt Collection, the Department of Transportation, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, the Department of Historic Resources, the Department of General Services, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Forestry, the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, and the State Corporation Commission shall be exempt from paying any fee for remote access to land records. If any clerk contracts with an outside vendor to provide remote access to land records to subscribers, such contract shall contain a provision exempting the Office of the Attorney General, the Division of Debt Collection, the Department of Transportation, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, the Department of Historic Resources, the Department of General Services, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Forestry, the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, and the State Corporation Commission from paying any access or subscription fee.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":219064,"text":"The circuit court clerk shall enter into an agreement with each person whom the clerk authorizes to have remote access, in accordance with the security standards established by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. Any such agreement between a state agency or employee thereof acting in the employee’s official capacity and the clerk or an outside vendor contracted by the clerk to provide remote access to land records to subscribers, or such an agreement between a state agency or employee thereof acting in the employee’s official capacity and both the clerk and the outside vendor, shall not contain any provision requiring the state agency or employee thereof acting in the employee’s official capacity to indemnify the clerk or the vendor. Any such agreement between a state agency and the clerk or an outside vendor shall provide that the state agency is required to monitor its employees’ activity under such agreement to ensure compliance with its terms.","type":"section","prefixes":["B"],"prefix":"B","entire_prefix":"B","prefix_anchor":"B","level":1,"prior_prefix":"A","next_prefix":"C"},"2":{"id":219065,"text":"The clerk may establish a program under which the clerk assesses a reasonable convenience fee that shall not exceed $2 per transaction for remote access to land records and a separate fee per image downloaded in an amount not to exceed the fee provided in subdivision A 8 of § 17.1-275.","type":"section","prefixes":["C"],"prefix":"C","entire_prefix":"C","prefix_anchor":"C","level":1,"prior_prefix":"B","next_prefix":"D"},"3":{"id":219066,"text":"Nothing herein shall be construed to require the use by the general public of the secure remote access to land records made available by the clerk, and such records may continue to be accessed in person in the clerk’s office.","type":"section","prefixes":["D"],"prefix":"D","entire_prefix":"D","prefix_anchor":"D","level":1,"prior_prefix":"C"}},"ancestry":[{"id":13880,"edition_id":1,"name":"Fees","identifier":"7","label":"article","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":13472,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:46:09","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:46:09","permalink":{"id":163289,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13880,"identifier":"7","token":"17.1\/2\/7","url":"\/17.1\/2\/7\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":13472,"edition_id":1,"name":"Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records","identifier":"2","label":"chapter","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12766,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:58","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:58","permalink":{"id":162961,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13472,"identifier":"2","token":"17.1\/2","url":"\/17.1\/2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12766,"edition_id":1,"name":"Courts of Record","identifier":"17.1","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:52","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:52","permalink":{"id":162799,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12766,"identifier":"17.1","token":"17.1","url":"\/17.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":83818,"structure_id":13880,"section_number":"17.1-266","catch_line":"Services rendered in Commonwealth's cases","url":"\/17.1-266\/","token":"17.1\/2\/7\/17.1-266","metadata":false},{"id":63126,"structure_id":13880,"section_number":"17.1-267","catch_line":"Services for which clerks may not charge","url":"\/17.1-267\/","token":"17.1\/2\/7\/17.1-267","metadata":false},{"id":68160,"structure_id":13880,"section_number":"17.1-268","catch_line":"Fee for effort to serve when person cannot be found","url":"\/17.1-268\/","token":"17.1\/2\/7\/17.1-268","metadata":false},{"id":71647,"structure_id":13880,"section_number":"17.1-269","catch_line":"To whom fees charged","url":"\/17.1-269\/","token":"17.1\/2\/7\/17.1-269","metadata":false},{"id":56555,"structure_id":13880,"section_number":"17.1-270","catch_line":"Officer to state fees, etc., on affidavit, deposition or report","url":"\/17.1-270\/","token":"17.1\/2\/7\/17.1-270","metadata":false},{"id":54909,"structure_id":13880,"section_number":"17.1-271","catch_line":"Deposit of money in bank","url":"\/17.1-271\/","token":"17.1\/2\/7\/17.1-271","metadata":false},{"id":85531,"structure_id":13880,"section_number":"17.1-272","catch_line":"Process and service fees generally","url":"\/17.1-272\/","token":"17.1\/2\/7\/17.1-272","metadata":false},{"id":61224,"structure_id":13880,"section_number":"17.1-273","catch_line":"Establishment and disposition of fees collected by certain high constable","url":"\/17.1-273\/","token":"17.1\/2\/7\/17.1-273","metadata":false},{"id":70312,"structure_id":13880,"section_number":"17.1-274","catch_line":"Commission on forthcoming bond","url":"\/17.1-274\/","token":"17.1\/2\/7\/17.1-274","metadata":false},{"id":71931,"structure_id":13880,"section_number":"17.1-275","catch_line":"Fees collected by clerks of circuit courts; 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This law was first created in 1985. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 489 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 1985 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 14 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 1993, chapter 445; in 1995, chapter 592<\/a>; in 1997, chapter 413<\/a>; in 1998, chapters 650<\/a> and 872<\/a>; in 2004, chapter 230<\/a>; in 2006, chapter 474<\/a>; in 2008, chapters 823<\/a> and 833<\/a>; in 2009, chapters 76<\/a>, 723<\/a>, and 797<\/a>; in 2010, chapter 430<\/a>; in 2011, chapters 434<\/a> and 493<\/a>; in 2012, chapters 234<\/a>, 469<\/a>, and 780<\/a>; in 2013, chapter 77<\/a>; in 2015, chapters 65<\/a> and 174<\/a>; in 2019, chapter 611<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":71931,"section_number":"17.1-275","catch_line":"Fees collected by clerks of circuit courts; generally","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275\/"},{"id":69820,"section_number":"17.1-279","catch_line":"Additional fee to be assessed by circuit court clerks for information technology","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-279\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":71931,"section_number":"17.1-275","catch_line":"Fees collected by clerks of circuit courts; generally","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-275\/"},{"id":57189,"section_number":"17.1-294","catch_line":"Secure remote access to land records","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-294\/"},{"id":63862,"section_number":"17.1-295","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/17.1-295\/"}],"permalink":{"id":163391,"object_type":"law","relational_id":59820,"identifier":"17.1-276","token":"17.1\/2\/7\/17.1-276","url":"\/17.1-276\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/17.1-276\/","token":"17.1\/2\/7\/17.1-276","dublin_core":{"Title":"Fee allowed for providing secure remote access to land records","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 17.1-276","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> A clerk of the circuit<\/span> court<\/span> who provides secure remote access to land records<\/span> pursuant to § 17.1-294<\/a> may charge a fee as provided in this section. The fee shall be paid to the clerk’s office and deposited by the clerk into the clerk’s nonreverting local fund to be used to cover operational expenses<\/span> as defined in § 17.1-295<\/a>. The clerk may charge a flat clerk’s fee to be assessed for each subscriber<\/span>, as defined in § 17.1-295<\/a>, in an amount not to exceed $50 per month and a separate fee per image downloaded in an amount not to exceed the fee provided in subdivision A 8 of § 17.1-275<\/a>. The clerk’s fees shall be used to cover operational expenses<\/span> as defined in § 17.1-295<\/a>.\n\t\t\tThe Office of the Attorney General<\/span>, the Division of Debt Collection, the Department of Transportation, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, the Department of Historic Resources, the Department of General Services, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Forestry, the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, and the State Corporation Commission shall be exempt from paying any fee for remote access to land records. If any clerk contracts<\/span> with an outside vendor to provide remote access to land records to subscribers<\/span>, such contract<\/span> shall contain a provision exempting the Office of the Attorney General<\/span>, the Division of Debt Collection, the Department of Transportation, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, the Department of Historic Resources, the Department of General Services, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Forestry, the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, and the State Corporation Commission from paying any access or subscription fee. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> The circuit<\/span> court<\/span> clerk shall enter into an agreement with each person whom the clerk authorizes to have remote access, in accordance with the security standards established by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. Any such agreement between a state agency or employee thereof acting in the employee’s official capacity and the clerk or an outside vendor contracted by the clerk to provide remote access to land records to subscribers<\/span>, or such an agreement between a state agency or employee thereof acting in the employee’s official capacity and both the clerk and the outside vendor, shall not contain any provision requiring the state agency or employee thereof acting in the employee’s official capacity to indemnify the clerk or the vendor. Any such agreement between a state agency and the clerk or an outside vendor shall provide that the state agency is required to monitor its employees’ activity under such agreement to ensure compliance with its terms. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> The clerk may establish a program under which the clerk assesses a reasonable convenience fee that shall not exceed $2 per transaction for remote access to land records and a separate fee per image downloaded in an amount not to exceed the fee provided in subdivision A 8 of § 17.1-275<\/a>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

D.<\/span> Nothing herein shall be construed to require the use by the general public of the secure remote access to land records<\/span> made available by the clerk, and such records may continue to be accessed in person in the clerk’s office. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nFEE ALLOWED FOR PROVIDING SECURE REMOTE ACCESS TO LAND RECORDS (\u00a7 17.1-276)\n\nA. A clerk of the circuit court who provides secure remote access to land\nrecords pursuant to § 17.1-294 may charge a fee as provided in this\nsection. The fee shall be paid to the clerk’s office and deposited by the\nclerk into the clerk’s nonreverting local fund to be used to cover\noperational expenses as defined in § 17.1-295. The clerk may charge a flat\nclerk’s fee to be assessed for each subscriber, as defined in §\n17.1-295, in an amount not to exceed $50 per month and a separate fee per image\ndownloaded in an amount not to exceed the fee provided in subdivision A 8 of\n§ 17.1-275. The clerk’s fees shall be used to cover operational\nexpenses as defined in § 17.1-295.\n\t\t\tThe Office of the Attorney General, the Division of Debt Collection, the\nDepartment of Transportation, the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, the Department\nof Historic Resources, the Department of General Services, the Department of\nConservation and Recreation, the Department of Forestry, the Virginia Alcoholic\nBeverage Control Authority, the Department of Rail and Public Transportation,\nand the State Corporation Commission shall be exempt from paying any fee for\nremote access to land records. If any clerk contracts with an outside vendor to\nprovide remote access to land records to subscribers, such contract shall\ncontain a provision exempting the Office of the Attorney General, the Division\nof Debt Collection, the Department of Transportation, the Virginia Outdoors\nFoundation, the Department of Historic Resources, the Department of General\nServices, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of\nForestry, the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, the Department of\nRail and Public Transportation, and the State Corporation Commission from paying\nany access or subscription fee.\n\nB. The circuit court clerk shall enter into an agreement with each person whom\nthe clerk authorizes to have remote access, in accordance with the security\nstandards established by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. Any such\nagreement between a state agency or employee thereof acting in the\nemployee’s official capacity and the clerk or an outside vendor contracted\nby the clerk to provide remote access to land records to subscribers, or such an\nagreement between a state agency or employee thereof acting in the\nemployee’s official capacity and both the clerk and the outside vendor,\nshall not contain any provision requiring the state agency or employee thereof\nacting in the employee’s official capacity to indemnify the clerk or the\nvendor. Any such agreement between a state agency and the clerk or an outside\nvendor shall provide that the state agency is required to monitor its\nemployees’ activity under such agreement to ensure compliance with its\nterms.\n\nC. The clerk may establish a program under which the clerk assesses a reasonable\nconvenience fee that shall not exceed $2 per transaction for remote access to\nland records and a separate fee per image downloaded in an amount not to exceed\nthe fee provided in subdivision A 8 of § 17.1-275.\n\nD. Nothing herein shall be construed to require the use by the general public of\nthe secure remote access to land records made available by the clerk, and such\nrecords may continue to be accessed in person in the clerk’s office.\n\nHISTORY: 1985, c. 489, \u00a7 14.1-118.1; 1993, c. 445; 1995, c. 592; 1997, c. 413;\n1998, cc. 650, 872; 2004, c. 230; 2006, c. 474; 2008, cc. 823, 833; 2009, cc.\n76, 723, 797; 2010, c. 430; 2011, cc. 434, 493; 2012, cc. 234, 469, 780; 2013,\nc. 77; 2015, cc. 65, 174; 2019, c. 611; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 124.","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}}