                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CUSTODY AND DISTRIBUTION OF REPORTS OF SUPREME COURT; COURT OF APPEALS (§
17.1-319)

A. The Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia shall be charged
with the custody, disposal and sale of the published reports of the decisions of
the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals. One copy of each volume of the
reports hereafter published shall be furnished either in print or in electronic
format to each of the following for their use and the use of their successors in
office:

   1. The Clerk and the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court;

   2. The reporter of the Supreme Court;

   3. The judges and retired judges of each circuit court of this Commonwealth;

   4. The clerk of each such court;

   5. Each judge of a general district court and each judge of a juvenile and
   domestic relations district court, and such district courts as shall be
   designated by the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia not to
   exceed 250 copies;

   6. The Clerk of the House of Delegates;

   7. The Clerk of the Senate;

   8. The Division of Legislative Services;

   9. The Virginia Workers&#8217; Compensation Commission;

   10. The Secretary of the Virginia State Bar;

   11. The clerk of each of the district courts of the United States held in this
   Commonwealth for the use of the courts and the members of the bar practicing
   therein;

   12. The attorney for the Commonwealth in counties and cities, and the county
   attorney in those counties which created the office of the county attorney;

   13. The Attorney General, his deputies and assistants upon written application
   to the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

B. Two copies of each volume of the reports hereafter published shall be
furnished to each of the justices of the Supreme Court, to each of the judges of
the Court of Appeals and to each of the members of the State Corporation
Commission for their use and for the use of their successors in office, except
that each justice, judge or member shall be entitled to retain for personal use
one copy of each volume in which appear any opinions authored by him. Eight
copies of each volume of the reports hereafter published shall be furnished to
each institution of higher education in the Commonwealth in which a law school
approved by the American Bar Association is established. Fifteen copies of each
such volume shall be placed in the State Law Library at Richmond.

C. He shall place in the Law Library at Richmond such additional copies of all
of the decisions of the Supreme Court as are available, so as to make up 15
complete sets of the Virginia Reports for the justices&#8217; private offices,
conference rooms and the Law Library.

HISTORY: 1980, c. 615, § 17-111.6; 1984, c. 703; 1990, c. 739; 1998, c. 872;
2003, c. 141.