Waynesboro Circuit Court, Virginia Document Filing Requirements

CRITICALCriminal cases

Applies to

Community service hours submission

Submitted community-service hours must have the necessary certification and comply with the program terms.

Hours submitted must have the necessary certification and comply with the terms of the program.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Materials drafted, created, enhanced, or modified by generative AI

Must include

ai disclosure

Materials drafted, created, enhanced, or modified by generative AI must include a written disclosure certification at the end or as an attachment.

Henceforth, all attorneys and pro se litigants must provide a written disclosure certification at the end of, or attached to, materials drafted, created, enhanced, or modified by generative AL.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Certification for proposed exhibits

Must include

ai disclosure

At least ten days before any trial or evidentiary hearing, attorneys and pro se litigants must file a certification disclosing generative AI use in proposed exhibits, including demonstrative exhibits.

All attorneys and pro se litigants shall also, no less than ten (10) days before any trial or evidentiary hearing, file a certification disclosing the use of generative Al in any proposed exhibits, including demonstrative exhibits.

CRITICALCriminal cases

Applies to

Community service request

The written request must identify the agency and explain the community benefit; incarcerated individuals must identify their work program.

1.) request approval in writing stating the agency where the community service work will be performed and how such work will benefit the community or governmental agency. Incarcerated individuals must specify the work program under which they are performing such community service.

CRITICALCriminal cases

Applies to

Community service hours confirmation

Credit requires sworn written confirmation from the supervising agency, which should state that credit is requested only in this Court; the same hours cannot be credited in multiple jurisdictions.

3.) provide written confirmation from the supervising agency, signed, under oath, by the supervisor of the community service work performed. The supervising agency should include a statement that credit for the community service hours being submitted is only being requested for the outstanding obligation in this Court. The same community service hours may not be credited towards fines and costs in multiple jurisdictions.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Filing

Must include

ai disclosure

The filing’s AI-use disclosure includes a certification about the use of generative AI and the factual and legal basis for the filing.

I hereby certify that generative artificial intelligence tools were used in the drafting, creation, enhancement, or modification of the instant filing. Pursuant to the duty found in Virginia Code §8.01- 271.1(B), notwithstanding the assistance from Al tools, to the best of my knowledge, the content of this filing is well-grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law. I acknowledge that this certification only applies to the instant filing.

CRITICALCriminal cases

Applies to

Payment agreement petition

For a fourth time-to-pay plan, defendants must complete Form DC-211 and obtain the Court’s approval.

• Fourth time to pay plans will require Defendants to complete the below Petition for Payment Agreement FORM DC-211 and obtain the Court’s approval. http://www.vacourts.gov/forms/district/dc211.pdf

WARNINGCriminal cases

A defendant whose sole income is Social Security or SSI may seek consideration of payment relief by filing a notarized Form CC-1379 with the Clerk’s Office.

If a defendant’s sole source of income is a social security benefit or supplemental security income, relief from payment may be considered by completing and filing a notarized form CC-1379 in the Clerk’s Office.