CHAPTER 274
An Act to amend and reenact §8.01-454 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to requirement that a judgment payment be noted by creditor;
penalty.
[H 393]
Approved March 24, 2014
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 8.01-454 of the Code of Virginia is amended
and reenacted as follows:
§8.01-454. Judgment, when paid, to be so noted by creditor.
In all cases in which payment or satisfaction of any judgment
so docketed is made, which is not required to be certified to the clerk under §
8.01-455, it shall be the duty of the judgment creditor, himself, or by his
agent or attorney, to cause such payment or satisfaction by the defendant,
whether in whole or in part, and if there is more than one defendant, by which
defendant it was paid or discharged, to be entered within thirty 30
days after the same is made, on such judgment docket. If the judgment has not
been docketed, then the entry shall be made on the execution book in the office
of the clerk from which the execution issued. For any failure to do so
within 90 days, or after ten 10 days' notice to do so
by the judgment debtor, or his agent or attorney, the judgment
creditor shall be liable to a fine of up to fifty dollars $100 and
shall pay the filing cost of the release. The entry of payment or
satisfaction shall be signed by the creditor, or his duly
authorized attorney or other agent, and be attested by the clerk in
whose office the judgment is docketed, or, when not docketed, by the
clerk from whose office the execution issued; however, the cost of the release
shall be paid by the judgment debtor.
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