§ 8.01-241.1.Permissible form for certificate.

Section 8.01-241.1 supplies the paperwork that makes the extension mechanism in § 8.01-241 work. It sets out a certificate of extension, to be recorded in the clerk’s office where the underlying deed of trust or mortgage is recorded, and requires that any extension of the limitations period conform substantially to this form. The certificate identifies the place of record, the date of the deed of trust or mortgage, the deed book and page, and the parties to the loan, then has the beneficial titleholder (or an attorney-in-fact or agent) certify that the lien’s enforcement period is extended ten years from the date of endorsement, signed and acknowledged before a notary.

Because § 8.01-241 requires the extension certificate to be recorded before the original period runs out, this form exists to make sure that recordation is done consistently and unambiguously — with the notarized signature giving the extension the same formal reliability as the original deed of trust or mortgage recording.