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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70521</law_id><section_number>17.1-246</section_number><catch_line>How costs thereof certified and paid</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="17.1">Courts of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Records, Recordation and Indexing Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The cost incurred shall be certified by the <span class="dictionary">court</span> or, if so designated by the <span class="dictionary">judge</span>, the clerk, to the governing body of the county or city in whose clerk&#x2019;s office the books or records so bound, rebound, microfilmed, transcribed or digitally reproduced are on file, to be paid by such county or city.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5982, &#xA7; 17-76; 1976, c. 630; 1997, c. 836; 1998, c. 872.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
