CHAPTER 301

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
55-109.1, to provide for certifications of recordation upon counterparts
of certain recorded instruments and subsequent recordations in other
cities and counties.

[S 75]

Approved March 30, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
55-109.1, as follows:

§ 55-109.1. Whenever a mortgage or deed of trust instrument upon
real or personal property located in more than one city or county is pre-
sented to and accepted for initial recordation in one such city or county,
the party by whom it is so presented may deliver to the clerk of such court
any number of executed and acknowledged counterparts of such instru-
ment. The clerk shall thereupon fix to each such counterpart his usual cer-
tificate of recordation, certifying thereby the payment of the recordation
tax levied by the Commonwealth, and shall return to the party presenting
the same all such counterparts except one which shall be retained by the
clerk for spreading upon the records of his office. Such certificate shall be
conclusive evidence of the payment of the recordation tax indicated thereby,
and the clerk in any other recording office in any other city or county shall
accept for recordation in his office any such counterpart so certified.