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2015 SESSION
15100054DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §17.1-258.3 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 17.1-258.3. Electronic filing in civil or criminal proceedings.
Any clerk of circuit court may establish and operate a system
for electronic filing in civil or criminal proceedings that shall be governed
by the Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
The circuit court clerk may require each person whom the clerk authorizes to
file documents electronically to provide proof of identity to the clerk and to
enter into an agreement specifying the electronic filing procedures to be
followed, including, but not limited to, security procedures, as defined in the
Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (§ 59.1-479 et seq.), for transmitting
signed or notarized documents. The clerk may charge copy fees per page, as
provided in subdivision A 8 of § 17.1-275, and obtain reimbursement for fees
paid by subscribers to its designated application service providers for the
technology systems used to operate electronic filing in civil and criminal cases
in the clerk's office. The fees and reimbursements collected shall be deposited
by the clerk into the clerk's nonreverting local fund to be used to cover
operational expenses as defined in § 17.1-295. Nothing herein shall be
construed to prevent the clerk from entering into agreements with designated
application service providers to provide all or part of the network or system
for electronic filing of civil or criminal records as provided herein. Further,
nothing herein shall be construed to require the electronic filing of any civil
or criminal record, and such records may continue to be filed in paper form.
Any clerk of circuit court with an electronic filing system
established in accordance with the Rules of the
Supreme Court of Virginia may charge an additional $2 $5 fee for every civil case
initially filed by paper, except that a person who is determined to be indigent
pursuant to § 19.2-159 shall be exempt from the payment of such fee. The fee
shall be paid to the clerk's office and deposited by the clerk into the clerk's
nonreverting local fund to be exclusively used to cover the operational
expenses as defined in § 17.1-295.