CHAPTER 372

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
58-919.1, to provide that certain records may be destroyed after first
being microphotographed or otherwise reproduced. tH 522]

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Approved March 14, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
58-919.1 as follows:

§ 58-919.1. The treasurer may, with the consent of the governing
body, cause all tax tickets, payment of which has been received, to be
photographed or microphotographed, or recorded by any other process
which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for reproducing
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the original, and may acquire, maintain and use such appropriate con-
tainers and files as shall be necessary to accommodate and preserve the
reproductions so obtained. .

Whenever such reproductions shall have been made and placed in
conveniently accessible files, and provision has been made for preserving,
examining and using the same, the treasurer may, with the approval of
the governing body, cause the tax tickets so reproduced to be destroyed.

A reproduction thereof if substantially the same size as the original,
when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original
itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original
is in existence or not and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction
is likewise admissible in evidence if the original reproduction is in exist-
ence and available for inspection under direction of court.

This section shall not apply to any tax tickets except those for taxes
for a tax year more than five years prior to the tax year in which such
photographing or microphotographing, or the recording by any other
process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for
reproducing the original, is done.

All costs incurred under this section shall be paid out of the county
or city treasury. .