                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACCEPTABILITY OF ELECTRONIC MEDIUM; SUBMISSION OF TRIAL COURT RECORD TO
APPELLATE COURT (§ 17.1-258.6)

A. In connection with civil or criminal proceedings in circuit court, any
statutory requirement for an original, original paper, paper, record, document,
facsimile, memorandum, exhibit, certification, or transcript shall be satisfied
if such is in an electronic form approved for filing under the Rules of Supreme
Court of Virginia. However, this section shall not apply to documents the form
of which is specified in any statute governing the creation and execution of
wills, codicils, testamentary trusts, premarital agreements, and negotiable
instruments.

B. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any statutory authorization for
the use of copies or reproductions in civil or criminal proceedings in circuit
court shall be satisfied by use of such copies or reproductions in hard copy or
electronic form approved for filing under the Rules of Supreme Court of
Virginia.

C. Any clerk of a circuit court with an electronic filing system that complies
with the Rules of Supreme Court of Virginia may provide the trial court record
in electronic form to the appropriate clerk of any appellate court. The clerk of
the Supreme Court and the clerk of the Court of Appeals shall accept the
official civil or criminal record in electronic form as otherwise required by
law. The clerk in the appellate court may also request that any paper trial
court records be forwarded to such clerk.

D. The Rules of Supreme Court of Virginia shall not prohibit the use of a
private vendor electronic filing system if such system is in compliance with the
filing standards established by the Court.

HISTORY: 2010, cc. 717, 760; 2015, c. 71; 2018, cc. 125, 129, 523.