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CHAPTER 554 An Act to amend and reenact § 55-106 of the Code of Virginia, relating to when and where writings are admitted to record in circuit courts. [H 692] Approved April 9, 1994

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 55-106 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 55-106. When and where writings admitted to record.

Except when it is otherwise provided, the circuit court of any county, or the corporation court of any city, other than the City of Richmond, in which any writing is to be or may be recorded, and the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond, when any such writing is to be or may be recorded in such city or city, or the clerk of any such court, or his duly qualified deputy, in his office, shall admit to record any such writing as to any person whose name is signed thereto with an original signature, except as provided in § 55-113 of the Code of Virginia, when it shall have been acknowledged by him, or proved by two witnesses as to him in such court, or before such clerk, or his duly qualified deputy, in his office, or the manner prescribed in §§ 55-113 to 55-115, 55-119 and 55-120, inclusive, and when Articles 2 (§ 55-113 et seq.), 2.1 (§ 55-118.1 et seq.), and 3 (§ 55-119 et seq.) of this chapter. When such writing is signed by a person acting on behalf of another, or in any representative capacity, such acknowledgment before such court or clerk, or his deputy, may be in accordance with the provisions of such sections the signature of such representative may be acknowledged or proved in the same manner.