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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63839</law_id><section_number>15.2-1523</section_number><catch_line>Record of qualification</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-1524</reference><reference>24.2-229</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="15">Local Government Personnel, Qualification for Office, Bonds, Dual Office Holding and Certain Local Government Officers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Qualifications; Eligibility, Etc., of Local Elected Officers</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>When an officer qualifies and gives <span class="dictionary">bond</span>, the <span class="dictionary">judge</span> shall certify the <span class="dictionary">fact</span> and the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> and certificate shall be returned to the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span>, and the certificate shall be entered in the <span class="dictionary">order</span> book of the <span class="dictionary">court</span> on the <span class="dictionary">law</span> side thereof and such <span class="dictionary">bond</span> shall be recorded by the clerk. When the officer qualifies and gives <span class="dictionary">bond</span> before the clerk, the clerk shall enter the <span class="dictionary">fact</span> of such qualification in the <span class="dictionary">order</span> book of the <span class="dictionary">court</span>, on the <span class="dictionary">law</span> side thereof, and record the <span class="dictionary">bond</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 15-476; 1962, c. 623, &#xA7; 15.1-39; 1997, c. 587.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
