CHAPTER 399

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 26-59 of the Code of 1950,
relating to when a nonresident fiduciary must have a res-

ident cofiduciary.
[ H 594 j
Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 26-59 of the Code of 1950 be amended and re-
enacted as follows:

§ 26-59. Nonresident fiduciaries must have resident co-
fiduciaries—No person not a resident of this State nor any
corporation not authorized to do business in this State shall be
appointed or allowed to qualify or act as personal representa-
tive, or trustee under a will, of any decedent, or appointed as
guardian of an infant or committee of any person non compos
mentis, unless there be also appointed to serve with the non-
resident personal representative, trustee, guardian or committee,
a person resident in this State or corporation authorized to do
business in this State; and in the event such resident personal
representative, trustee, or guardian ceases, for any reason to
act, then a new resident personal representative, trustee, or
guardian shall be appointed in the same manner as provided
in § 26-48; provided that when the nonresident guardian or
committee is the parent of the infant or person non compos
mentis, the resident guardian appointed under this section
shall have no control over the person of the ward. Nothing in
this section shall be construed to impair the validity of any
appointment or qualification made prior to June seventeenth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, nor to affect in any way
the other provisions of this chapter or of § 64-123. The pro-
visions of this section shall not authorize or allow any appoint-
ment or qualification prohibited by § 6-9.