W. Va. Code R. § 153-48-3

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 36, September 6, 2024

Section 153-48-3 - Electronic Document Data Fields, Format, and Transmission

3.1. Electronic document recording shall meet the technical standards for electronic document data fields and formats as prescribed by the Property Records Industry Association (PRIA) in the PRIA eRecording XML standard Version 2.4. This includes:

3.1.1. PRIA Request Version 2.4.2, August 2007;

3.1.2. PRIA Response Version 2.4.2, August 2007;

3.1.3. Document Version 2.4.1, October 2007; and

3.1.4. Notary Version 2.4.1, October 2007.

3.2. These standards are available from the Property Records Industry Association, 2501 Aerial Center Parkway Ste. 103, Morrisville, NC 27560, and at http://www.PRIA.US/.

3.3. Electronic Documents shall be transmitted and stored as either of the following:

3.3.1. TIFF or PDF files, in accordance with the TIFF 6.0 Specification, published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 12639:2004, Graphic technology - prepress digital data exchange - tag image file format for image technology (TIFF/IT); or

3.3.2. PDF 1.7 specification, published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000-1:2008, Document management - portable document format - Part 1: PDF 1.7.

3.4. Participating County Clerks may choose to adopt a standardized property record document format according to the PRIA Real Estate Document Formatting referenced by this rule.

W. Va. Code R. § 153-48-3