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2015 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 8.01-454 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 8.01-454. Judgment, when satisfied, to be so noted by creditor.
In all cases in which payment or satisfaction of any
judgment so docketed is made, which is not required to be certified to the
clerk under § 8.01-455, it shall be the duty of the judgment creditor, himself,
or by his agent or attorney, to cause such payment or satisfaction by
the defendant, whether in whole or in part, and if there is more than
one defendant, by which defendant it was paid or discharged satisfied,
to be entered within 30 days after the same is made, on such judgment docket.
If the judgment has not been docketed, then the entry shall be made on the
execution book in the office of the clerk from which the execution issued. For
any failure to do so within 90 days, or after 10 days' notice to do so by the
judgment debtor or his agent or attorney, the judgment creditor shall be liable
to a fine of $100 and shall pay the filing cost of the release. The entry of
payment or satisfaction shall be signed by the creditor or his duly
authorized attorney or other agent and be attested by the clerk in whose office
the judgment is docketed, or when not docketed, by the clerk from whose office
the execution issued; however, the cost of the release shall be paid by the
judgment debtor.