                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECORDING RELEASES OF DEEDS OF TRUST, PARTIAL RELEASES OF DEEDS OF TRUST, COURT
ORDERED RELEASES, OR OTHER LIENS OR ASSIGNMENTS IN CITIES AND COUNTIES USING
MICROFILM (§ 17.1-228)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the writings required by
law to be recorded in the deed book in the office of the clerk of the circuit
court of any city or county are recorded by a microphotographic process or by
any other method or process which renders impractical or impossible the
subsequent entering of marginal notations upon a recorded instrument, an
appropriate certificate, certificate of satisfaction, certificate of partial
satisfaction, certified copy of order, or other separate instrument setting
forth the necessary information shall be recorded and indexed according to law.
		When existing deed books in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of
any county or city are to be microfilmed or digitally reproduced for security
purposes, the clerk may provide that marginal notations to accomplish the
release of deeds of trust or other liens shall not be made in such deed book so
microfilmed or digitally reproduced.

HISTORY: 1975, c. 469, § 17-60.1; 1978, c. 629; 1991, c. 414; 1998, c. 872;
2008, cc. 823, 833.