Chap. 436.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section
numbered 4149-f, relating to opening safe deposit boxes under certain con-
ditions. [H 459]

Approved April 1, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new section
numbered forty-one hundred forty-nine-f as follows:

Section 4149-f. In any case where a company, bank, trust com-
pany or other corporation having for rent safe deposit boxes is served
with notice of lien of fieri facias or other process under sections sixty-
four hundred eighty-five and sixty-five hundred one of the Code of
Virginia or a summons in garnishment in which a renter or lessee of a
safe deposit box is named defendant or judgment debtor it shall be the
duty of such company, bank, trust company, or other corporation to
deny such renter or lessee access to the safe deposit box rented or leased
in the name of the defendant or judgment debtor unless otherwise
directed by a court of competent jurisdiction or by the judgment creditor.
Any bank so denying access shall not be liable for any loss occasioned
thereby to such renter or lessee.