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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85704</law_id><section_number>17.1-258.3:3</section_number><catch_line>Submission of records as electronic documents</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="4.1">Electronic Filing</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Upon written agreement with the clerk, any agency or instrumentality of the Commonwealth may submit any record to the clerk as an electronic document. The form of electronic submission shall comply with the security and data standards established by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency for any such electronic submission. Any record so submitted shall satisfy any <span class="dictionary">law</span> requiring that a document be an original, be on paper or another tangible medium, or be in writing.</p></section></text><history>2015, c. 641.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
