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Nothing in this article diminishes or invalidates the recognition accorded to notarial acts by other laws or regulations of the Commonwealth.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1380308,"text":"A notarial act performed prior to June 26, 1970, is not affected by this article. This article provides an additional method of proving notarial acts. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 719 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1970 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2019, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0712\">712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1472557,"object_type":"law","relational_id":369967,"identifier":"55.1-622","token":"55.1\/II\/6\/3\/55.1-622","url":"\/55.1-622\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-622\/","token":"55.1\/II\/6\/3\/55.1-622","dublin_core":{"Title":"Application of article; article cumulative","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-622","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>A notarial act performed prior to June 26, 1970, is not affected by this article. This article provides an additional method of proving notarial acts. Nothing in this article diminishes or invalidates the recognition accorded to notarial acts by other <span class=\"dictionary\">laws<\/span> or regulations of the Commonwealth.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nAPPLICATION OF ARTICLE; ARTICLE CUMULATIVE (\u00a7 55.1-622)\n\nA notarial act performed prior to June 26, 1970, is not affected by this\narticle. This article provides an additional method of proving notarial acts.\nNothing in this article diminishes or invalidates the recognition accorded to\nnotarial acts by other laws or regulations of the Commonwealth.\n\nHISTORY: 1970, c. 719, \u00a7 55-118.7; 2019, c. 712.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}