CHAPTER 82

An Act to amend and reenact § 17-46 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to storage of certain records. rH 228]

Approved February 24, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 17-46 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 17-46. The judge of any court in whose clerk’s office any contract
of sale, or sale, under the provisions of §§ 55-88 to 55-90 has been admitted
to record may, when such contract of sale or sale has been on record for
at least fifteen years in such clerk’s office, or when delinquent capitation
tax books or any personal property tax books have been stored in such
clerk’s office and are shown to be no longer needed for any purpose, author-
ize and require such clerk, by an order of record, to store at some suitable
place other than such clerk’s office all such contracts of sale, sales and
books containing the same and likewise to store any such delinquent
capitation tax books or any such personal property tax books.

After a period of fifteen years all inventories, appraisements, lists of
sales and settlements of accounts of executors, administrators, curators,
trustees and other fiduciaries which have been recorded as provided by
§ 17-68 and all bonds recorded in bond books as required by § 17-62, and
after five years all crop liens and crop lien books where same are recorded,
which are shown to be no longer needed for any purpose, the court may
likewise by order entered of record authorize and require the clerk, to
store the same at some suitable place other than in such clerk’s office.

Upon the entry of such order the clerk shall thereupon store such
papers and books as hereinabove set out and mentioned in such manner
as the court in the order may direct. *

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.