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The clerk shall fix to each such copy his certificate of recordation, certifying thereby the payment of the recordation tax levied by the Commonwealth, and shall return to the party presenting all such instruments all such copies except one, which shall be retained by the clerk for recordation in his office. Such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the payment of the recordation tax indicated thereby, and the clerk in any other recording office in any other county or city shall accept for recordation in his office any such copy so certified.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":287002,"text":"Whenever a mortgage or deed of trust instrument upon real or personal property located in more than one county or city is recorded in one such county or city, the party by whom it is so presented may deliver to the clerk of such court any number of executed and acknowledged copies of such instrument. The clerk shall fix to each such copy his certificate of recordation, certifying thereby the payment of the recordation tax levied by the Commonwealth, and shall return to the party presenting all such instruments all such copies except one, which shall be retained by the clerk for recordation in his office. 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This law was first created in 1962. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 301 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 1962 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 2019, chapter 712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":245495,"object_type":"law","relational_id":80177,"identifier":"55.1-608","token":"55.1\/II\/6\/1\/55.1-608","url":"\/55.1-608\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-608\/","token":"55.1\/II\/6\/1\/55.1-608","dublin_core":{"Title":"Certifications of recordation upon copies of certain instruments and subsequent recordation in other county or city","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-608","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Whenever a mortgage or deed of trust instrument upon real or personal property located in more than one county or city is recorded in one such county or city, the party<\/span> by whom it is so presented may deliver to the clerk of such court<\/span> any number of executed and acknowledged copies of such instrument. The clerk shall fix to each such copy his certificate of recordation, certifying thereby the payment of the recordation tax levied by the Commonwealth, and shall return to the party<\/span> presenting all such instruments all such copies except one, which shall be retained by the clerk for recordation in his office. Such certificate shall be conclusive evidence<\/span> of the payment of the recordation tax indicated thereby, and the clerk in any other recording office in any other county or city shall accept for recordation in his office any such copy so certified.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCERTIFICATIONS OF RECORDATION UPON COPIES OF CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS AND SUBSEQUENT\nRECORDATION IN OTHER COUNTY OR CITY (\u00a7 55.1-608)\n\nWhenever a mortgage or deed of trust instrument upon real or personal property\nlocated in more than one county or city is recorded in one such county or city,\nthe party by whom it is so presented may deliver to the clerk of such court any\nnumber of executed and acknowledged copies of such instrument. The clerk shall\nfix to each such copy his certificate of recordation, certifying thereby the\npayment of the recordation tax levied by the Commonwealth, and shall return to\nthe party presenting all such instruments all such copies except one, which\nshall be retained by the clerk for recordation in his office. Such certificate\nshall be conclusive evidence of the payment of the recordation tax indicated\nthereby, and the clerk in any other recording office in any other county or city\nshall accept for recordation in his office any such copy so certified.\n\nHISTORY: 1962, c. 301, \u00a7 55-109.1; 2019, c. 712.","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}}