Chap. 217.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section
numbered 3386-a, relating to the storage of certain recorded instruments and
other records. [fH B 345]

Approved March 23, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new section
numbered thirty-three hundred eighty-six-a, as follows:

Section 3386-a. Storage of certain records.—The judge of any
court in whose clerk’s office any contract of sale or sale under the pro-
visions of section fifty-one hundred eighty-nine of the Code of Virginia
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, authorize and require such clerk, by an order of record,
to store at some suitable place other than such clerk’s office all such con-
tracts of sale, sales and books containing same and likewise to store any
such delinquent capitation tax books or anv such personal property tax
books; upon the entry of such order the clerk shall thereupon store in
such manner as the court in its said order may direct all such delinquent
capitation tax books and personal property tax books, and all such con-
tracts of sale and sales so recorded and books containing same which
have been on record for at least fifteen years.