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SENATE BILL NO. 1073 Offered January 20, 1997 A BILL to amend and reenact § 17-40 of the Code of Virginia, relating to location of clerks' offices. ---------- Patrons-- Williams, Maxwell and Norment; Delegate: Diamonstein ---------- Referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 17-40 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 17-40. Where offices to be located.

The clerk's office of every circuit court, or any division thereof, of any county or city shall be kept at the courthouse of such county or city, unless there shall have been a failure by the proper authorities to provide such office there, in which case the clerk's office may be kept at such other place within the county or city as the court may direct. However, nothing in this section shall prohibit the establishment of a clerks' office satellite facility or annex which is not located at the courthouse.