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2001 SESSION

010456748
HOUSE BILL NO. 1566
Offered January 10, 2001
Prefiled September 22, 2000
A BILL to amend and reenact § 17.1-252 of the Code of Virginia, relating to indexing legal instruments by tax map reference number.
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Patron-- Griffith
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Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 17.1-252 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 17.1-252. Indexing by tax map reference number.

Circuit court clerks in those localities with a unique parcel identification system shall require that any deed or other instrument, except certificates of satisfaction, conveying or relating to an interest in real property bear, on the first page of the deed or other instrument, the tax map reference number or numbers, or the parcel identification number (PIN) or numbers, of the affected parcel or parcels. Upon admitting the deed or other instrument to record, the clerk may, in addition to any other indexing required by law, index the deed or other instrument by the tax map reference number or numbers or by the parcel identification number or numbers.