17.1-206 - Where offices to be located. - Virginia Statutes

§ 17.1-206. Where offices to be located.

The clerk's office of every circuit court, or any division thereof, of anycounty or city shall be kept at the courthouse of such county or city, unlessthere is a failure by the proper authorities to provide an office there, inwhich case the clerk's office may be kept at such other place within thecounty or city as the court may direct. However, nothing in this sectionshall prohibit the establishment of a clerk's office satellite facility orannex which is not located at the courthouse; provided that recording of allland records, docketing of all monetary judgments, filing of U.C.C. financingstatements, and filing of matters at law and in equity shall be conducted atthe courthouse location. All expenses related to the establishment andoperation of a satellite facility or annex shall be the responsibility of thelocality.

(Code 1919, § 3385, § 17-40; 1938, p. 132; 1973, c. 406; 1997, c. 325; 1998,c. 872.)