                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECORDING OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS AMONG THE LAND RECORDS (§ 55.1-663)

A. A clerk of a circuit court who implements an eRecording System shall do so in
compliance with standards established by the Virginia Information Technologies
Agency.

B. A clerk of a circuit court may receive, index, store, archive, and transmit
electronic land records.

C. A clerk of a circuit court may provide for access to, and for search and
retrieval of, land records by electronic means.

D. A clerk of a circuit court who accepts electronic documents for recording
among the land records shall continue to accept paper land records and shall
place entries for both types of land records in the same indices.

E. A clerk of a circuit court may convert paper records accepted for recording
into electronic form. The clerk of circuit court may convert into electronic
form land records documents recorded before the clerk of circuit court began to
record electronic records.

F. Any fee or tax that a clerk of circuit court is authorized to collect may be
collected electronically.

HISTORY: 2006, c. 745, § 55-142.12; 2019, c. 712.