Chap. 111.—An ACT to protect persons acting in good faith under or in reliance
upon written powers of attorney or written agency agreements executed by per-
sons in the Armed Forces or Military Service of the United States or by persons
who depart from the United States by permission or direction of any department
or official of the United States in connection with work relating to the PS 40)

cution of the war.
Approved March 2, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

1. Section 1. A power of attorney, or an agency agreement to
which this act applies, shall be effective as to a third party dealing in
good faith with the donee of the power or an agent acting under such
agency agreement, notwithstanding the prior death of the donor or of
the principal, provided that the third party, at the time of such dealing,
had no knowledge or actual notice of the death of the donor or the prin-
cipal.

Section 2. A donee of a power of attorney or an agent to whom this
act applies, who acts in good faith pursuant to such power or agency
agreement, shall not be liable for any such act either to a third party, or
to the personal representatives or heirs of the donor or the principal
solely by reason of the death of the donor or of the principal, provided
that at the time of such act he had no knowledge or actual notice of the
death of the donor, or the principal.

Section 3. The fact that any such donor. principal has been reported
missing, or missing in action, or missing following action, shall not be
considered as indie: ating, or as actual notice of, the death of such donor
or principal.
Section 4. The provisions of this act shall be applicable only to a
written power of attorney and to a written agency agreement executed
either (a) by a person in the Armed Forces or Military Service of the
United States, or by a person who, after executing such power of at-
torney or such agency agreement, enters the Armed Forces or Military
Service of the United States; or (b) by a person who departs from the
United States by permission or direction of any department or official
of the United States in connection with work relating to the prosecution
of the war.

Section 5. The words “donee”, and “third party’’, and “agent” as
used in this act, shall include an individual, partnership, association or
corporation.

Section 6. This act shall remain and be in effect during the existing
hostilities and until six months after the termination thereof by treaty of
peace or otherwise as officially determined by Federal authority.

Section 7. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions
of this act are hereby repealed.

2. An emergency exists, and this act shall be in force from its pas-

sage.
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