CHAPTER 723

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-266 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
evidentiary effect of certain public records. 3 409
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Approved April 5, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
in That § 8-266 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 8-266. Copies of records or papers in court clerk’s office, or in the
public offices.—A copy of any record or paper (1) in the clerk’s office of any
court, or in the office of the Central Criminal Records Exchange, Secretary
of the Commonwealth, Commission of Fisheries, State Treasurer, Comp-
troller, Auditor of Public Accounts, Division of Motor Vehicles, * the
Commissioner of Agriculture and * Commerce, attested by the officer
in whose office the same is; (2) in the office of the State Corporation
Commission, the State Board of Education, or the board of supervisors or
other governing body of any county, attested by the secretary or clerk of
such Commission or board; (3) in the office of surveyor of lands of any
county, attested by the surveyor in whose office the same is, may be ad-
mitted as evidence in lieu of the original. But for good cause shown,
the original records in the office of the surveyor of lands of any county
may be required to be produced.
Any such copy purporting to be sealed, or sealed and signed, or
signed alone, by any such officer, secretary or clerk, may be admitted as
evidence, without any proof of the seal or signature, or of the official
character of the person whose name is signed to it.