                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COPY OF ILLEGIBLE INSTRUMENT USED FOR MAKING PERMANENT RECORD (§ 17.1-224)

In offices of clerks of courts of record in which instruments are recorded by
any photographic or electronic imaging process, the clerk may, in the event any
such instrument is in such condition that a perfect and legible record cannot be
produced by such process, make and certify a copy of such instrument, for which
he shall be entitled to such fees as are prescribed by law for making and
certifying copies of instruments, and use such copy for making permanent records
of his office by such photographic or electronic imaging process. Such original
instrument shall be preserved in the clerk&#8217;s office, in the same manner as
is prescribed by law for preserving wills.

HISTORY: 1948, p. 776; Michie Suppl. 1948, § 3387b, § 17-59.1; 1998, c. 872;
2010, cc. 717, 760.