HD8 - A Retention Schedule for Court Records

  • Published: 1987
  • Author: General Assembly. Joint Subcommittee
  • Enabling Authority: House Joint Resolution 69 (Regular Session, 1986)

Executive Summary:
Pursuant to House Joint Resolution No. 69 (See Appendix A), the 1986 Session of the General Assembly authorized a study to review alternatives and recommend proposals concerning a retention and disposition policy for circuit court records in the Commonwealth.

C. Hardaway Marks, a delegate from Hopewell and sponsor of the study resolution, was selected to chair the joint study subcommittee. Other members of the General Assembly chosen from the House of Delegates to serve on this subcommittee were W. Tayloe Murphy, Jr., and Robert W. Ackerman, and, from the Senate, Virgil H. Goode, Jr. and Thomas J. Michie, Jr. Additionally, two circuit court judges, Robert C. Goad and Robert W. Stewart, two clerks of circuit courts, Charlton E. Gnadt and David A. Bell, and two citizen members, Lawrence A. Belcher and R. Breckinridge Daughtrey, were appointed to serve on the study subcommittee.