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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>350011</law_id><section_number>17.1-243</section_number><catch_line>Clerks to have land books bound</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="50" identifier="17.1">Courts of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="2" identifier="2">Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="5" identifier="3">Records, Recordation and Indexing Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Except those clerks using an automated system, clerks shall bind, in volumes of convenient size, all books in their respective clerks&#x2019; offices not currently bound showing the assessments of lands since the year 1850, and shall bind in like volumes such books hereafter filed in their clerks&#x2019; offices at intervals of not more than five years.</p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5979, &#xA7; 17-73; 1998, c. 872; 2014, c. 460.</history><metadata><court_decisions></court_decisions></metadata></law>
