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2010 Code of Virginia
Title 17.1 - COURTS OF RECORD.
Chapter 2 - Clerks, Clerks' Offices and Records (17.1-200 thru 17.1-295)
17.1-209 - Preservation of papers in clerk's office.
§ 17.1-209. Preservation of papers in clerk's office.
All papers lawfully returned to, or filed in, the clerk's office shall be preserved therein until legally delivered out, and shall not be destroyed, even if reproduced electronically, except as provided for in § 17.1-213 or as otherwise permitted by law.
(Code 1919, § 3386, § 17-44; 1998, c. 872; 2008, cc. 53, 142.)
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