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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64543</law_id><section_number>55.1-606</section_number><catch_line>Standards for writings to be docketed or recorded</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="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Real Estate Settlements and Recordation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Recordation of Documents</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Except as provided in Article 4.1 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definition" href="/17.1-258.2/">17.1-258.2</a> et seq.) of Title 17.1 and for electronically signed or electronically notarized documents described in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Duty of clerk to record writings, etc., and make index" href="/17.1-223/">17.1-223</a>, all writings that are to be recorded or docketed in the clerk&#x2019;s office of <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of record shall be an original or first generation printed form, or legible copy thereof, pen and ink, or typed ribbon copy and shall meet the standards for instruments as adopted under &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Documents to be recorded in deed books; social security numbers" href="/17.1-227/">17.1-227</a> and <a class="law" title="Duties and powers of Library Board" href="/42.1-82/">42.1-82</a> of the Virginia Public Records Act (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Legislative intent; title of chapter" href="/42.1-76/">42.1-76</a> et seq.).
		If a writing that does not conform to the requirements of this section or the standards for instruments adopted under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Documents to be recorded in deed books; social security numbers" href="/17.1-227/">17.1-227</a> and under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Duties and powers of Library Board" href="/42.1-82/">42.1-82</a> of the Virginia Public Records Act (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Legislative intent; title of chapter" href="/42.1-76/">42.1-76</a> et seq.) is accepted for recordation, it shall be deemed validly recorded and the clerk shall have no liability for accepting such a writing that does not meet the enumerated criteria in all the particulars.
		The clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> of any <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> shall be immune from suit arising from any acts or omissions relating to recordation of paper copies of electronically notarized documents pursuant to this section unless the clerk was grossly negligent or engaged in willful misconduct.</p></section></text><history>1924, p. 144; Michie Code 1942, &#xA7; 5210a; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-108; 1983, c. 291; 1986, c. 346; 2005, c. 744; 2019, c. 712; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 78.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
