Retention and Disposition of District Court Records

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This is Article 6 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Retention and Disposition of District Court Records.” It is part of Chapter 4.1 “District Courts”, which is part of Title 16.1 “Courts Not of Record”. It contains 7 laws.

It’s comprised of the following 7 sections.

§ 16.1-69.53	Definitions; construction of references to period of years
§ 16.1-69.54	General provisions
§ 16.1-69.54:1	Request for district court records
§ 16.1-69.55	Retention of case records; limitations on enforcement of judgments; extensions
§ 16.1-69.56	Retention of financial and administrative records
§ 16.1-69.57	Destruction of court records
§ 16.1-69.58	Processing, retention and reproduction of court records; retention and destruction of records in which final disposition was entered before January 1, 1985