CHAPTER 111

An Act to amend and reenact § 26-37, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the disposition of vouchers and other papers relating to
estates; and to repeal §§ 26-16.1 and 26-35.1 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the disposition of inventories and accounts of sales, and of
reports of fiduciaries.

[H 276]

Approved February 23, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 26-16.1 and 26-35.1 of the Code of Virginia are repealed.
2. That § 26-37, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 26-37. All inventories and original accounts of sales filed with the
clerk as required by §§ 26-14 and 26-16, all reports filed with the clerk
under § 26-35, when the same have been actually recorded by the clerk,
compared, indexed, and confirmed as respectively required by law, and all
vouchers or other evidence filed with commissioner, the court or the clerk
at the time of confirmation of an account, and not required as evidence of
any further matter of inquiry pending before the court or the commis-
sioner, shall upon request made at the time of filing the same be returned
by the commissioner or by the clerk of the court to the fiduciary or other
person who filed the same.

The clerk of court, * may destroy * any papers mentioned in the first
paragraph of this section or any other papers relating to estates, when the
matter concerned has been closed with final settlement for more than *
three years and appropriate recordations have been made; provided, how-
ever, that nothing in this section shall apply to original documents recorded
by binding; and provided further that if such recordation is done by
facsimile reproduction process such papers may be destroyed if the return
thereof was not requested at the time of filing for recordation.