§ 17.1-223 Duty of clerk to record writings, etc., and make index.
§ 17.1-224 Copy of illegible instrument used for making permanent record.
§ 17.1-225 Remote access to nonconfidential court records.
§ 17.1-226 Remote access to certain agencies from clerk of court.
§ 17.1-227 Documents to be recorded in deed books; social security numbers.
§ 17.1-227.1 Use of cover sheets on deeds or other instruments by circuit court clerks.
§ 17.1-228 Recording releases of deeds of trust, partial releases of deeds of trust, court ordered releases, or other liens or assignments in cities and counties using microfilm.
§ 17.1-229 Additional documents to be recorded in deed book.
§ 17.1-230 Documents to be recorded in bond book.
§ 17.1-231 Documents to be recorded in will book.
§ 17.1-232 What to be recorded in judgment docket.
§ 17.1-233 What to be recorded in marriage register.
§ 17.1-234 Documents to be recorded in “writings partially proved.”.
§ 17.1-235 Recordation of federal farm loan mortgages.
§ 17.1-236 Recordation of plats and maps.
§ 17.1-237 Validation of recordations in certain plat books.
§ 17.1-238 State highway plat book.
§ 17.1-239 Character of books used for recording; standards for microfilm, etc.
§ 17.1-240 Recording by microphotographic or electronic process.
§ 17.1-241 Clerks to procure books for record.
§ 17.1-242 Custody of books, records, etc.
§ 17.1-243 Clerks to have land books bound.
§ 17.1-244 Books, etc., in clerks’ offices rebound, transcribed, microfilmed or digitally reproduced; credit given to transcripts, etc.
§ 17.1-245 Books may be taken from clerk’s office to be rebound, etc.
§ 17.1-246 How costs thereof certified and paid.
§ 17.1-247 Repealed.
§ 17.1-248 Clerk to make index to each of his books.
§ 17.1-249 General indexes for clerks’ offices; daily index.
§ 17.1-250 Correction of indexes.
§ 17.1-251 Indexing of certain subdivision plats or maps.
§ 17.1-252 Indexing by tax map reference number.
§ 17.1-253 Committee to inquire into necessity of general index; report; plan adopted; locality to cover cost.
§ 17.1-254 Validation of judgment records in office of clerk of Circuit Court of Norfolk.
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Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 17.1 > Chapter 2 > Article 3 - Records, Recordation and Indexing Generally.

  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Base assessed value: means the assessed value of real estate within a development project area as shown upon the land book records of the local assessing officer on January 1 of the year preceding the effective date of the ordinance creating the development project area. See Virginia Code 58.1-3245
  • Base assessed value: means the assessed value of real estate or machinery and tools within a local enterprise zone as shown upon the records of the local assessing officer on January 1 of the year preceding the effective date of the ordinance establishing the local enterprise zone development taxation. See Virginia Code 58.1-3245.6
  • Blighted area: means any area within the borders of a development project area which impairs economic values and tax revenues, causes an increase in and spread of disease and crime, and is a menace to the health, safety, morals and welfare of the citizens of the Commonwealth; or any area which endangers the public health, safety and welfare because commercial, industrial and residential structures are subject to dilapidation, deterioration, obsolescence, inadequate ventilation, inadequate public utilities and violations of minimum health and safety standards; or any area previously designated as a blighted area pursuant to § 36-48; or any area adjacent to or in the immediate vicinity thereof which may be improved or enhanced in value by the placement of a proposed highway construction project. See Virginia Code 58.1-3245
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • Courts of record: means the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Court of Appeals of Virginia, and the circuit courts. See Virginia Code 1-212
  • Current assessed value: means the annual assessed value of real estate in a development project area as recorded on the land book records of the local assessing officer. See Virginia Code 58.1-3245
  • Current assessed value: means the annual assessed value of real estate or machinery and tools in a local enterprise zone as shown upon the records of the local assessing officer. See Virginia Code 58.1-3245.6
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Department: means the Department of Taxation. See Virginia Code 58.1-1
  • Development project area: means any area designated for development or redevelopment, including any area designated for a dredging project other than a dredging project for or by the Virginia Port Authority, unless the Virginia Port Authority has an agreement with a local governing body for local financial participation in such a project, in an ordinance passed by the local governing body. See Virginia Code 58.1-3245
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Enterprise zone: means an area designated by the Governor as an enterprise zone pursuant to Chapter 49 of Title 59. See Virginia Code 58.1-3245.6
  • farm: means any person that obtains at least 51 percent of its annual gross income from agricultural operations and produces the agricultural waste used as feedstock for the waste-to-energy technology, (ii) "agricultural waste" means biomass waste materials capable of decomposition that are produced from the raising of plants and animals during agricultural operations, including animal manures, bedding, plant stalks, hulls, and vegetable matter, and (iii) "waste-to-energy technology" means any technology, including but not limited to a methane digester, that converts agricultural waste into gas, steam, or heat that is used to generate electricity on-site. See Virginia Code 1-222.1
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Governing body: means the board of supervisors, council or other legislative body of any county, city or town. See Virginia Code 58.1-3245
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • inhabitants: means with reference to any county, city, town, political subdivision of the Commonwealth or any combination thereof, the natural persons in such county, city, town, political subdivision or combination as shown by the unadjusted United States decennial census last preceding the time at which any provision dependent upon population is being applied or the time as of which it is being construed. See Virginia Code 1-235
  • Local enterprise zone: means an enterprise zone designated as a local enterprise zone by an ordinance adopted pursuant to § Virginia Code 58.1-3245.6
  • Obligations: means bonds, general obligation bonds and revenue bonds as defined in § Virginia Code 58.1-3245
  • Public facilities: means (i) airports, landing fields, and air navigation facilities; (ii) educational facilities; (iii) flood control, bank and shore protection, watershed protection, and dams; (iv) hospital facilities; (v) judicial and court facilities; (vi) correctional facilities, including jails and penitentiaries; (vii) library facilities; (viii) military installations; (ix) parks so designated by the Commonwealth or by the locality in its comprehensive plan; (x) properties of historical significance so designated by the Commonwealth; (xi) law enforcement, fire, emergency medical, and rescue facilities; (xii) sanitary sewer, water or stormwater facilities; (xiii) transportation facilities including highways, roads, streets, and bridges, traffic signals, related easements and rights-of-way, mass transit, ports, and any components of federal, state, or local transportation facilities; (xiv) waste management facilities for hazardous, radioactive, or other waste; (xv) office facilities occupied by a public corporation; and (xvi) such other facilities that are necessary to the construction, maintenance, or operation of a public facility as listed in clauses (i) through (xv) and directly related thereto. See Virginia Code 1-219.1
  • Tax increment: means the amount by which the current assessed value of real estate exceeds the base assessed value. See Virginia Code 58.1-3245
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.