55-108 - Standards for writings to be docketed or recorded. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-108. Standards for writings to be docketed or recorded.

Except as provided in Article 4.1 (§ 17.1-258.2 et seq.) of Title 17.1, allwritings which are to be recorded or docketed in the clerk's office of courtsof record in the Commonwealth shall be an original or first generationprinted form, or legible copy thereof, pen and ink or typed ribbon copy, andshall meet the standards for instruments as adopted under §§ 17.1-227 and42.1-82 of the Virginia Public Records Act (§ 42.1-76 et seq.).

If a writing which does not conform to the requirements of this statute orthe standards for instruments adopted under §§ 17.1-227 and 42.1-82 of theVirginia Public Records Act is accepted for recordation, it shall be deemedvalidly recorded and the clerk shall have no liability for accepting such awriting which does not meet the enumerated criteria in all the particulars.

(1924, p. 144; Michie Code 1942, § 5210a; 1983, c. 291; 1986, c. 346; 2005,c. 744.)