CHAPTER 387

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section num-
bered 26-68.1, so as to provide that conservators of certain property
may sell same; and to prescribe the procedure therefor. rH 680}

Approved April 2, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a section
numbered 26-68.1 as follows:

§ 26-68.1. Any duly appointed conservator of the estate of a person
the presumption of whose death has been raised by such person going
from the state and not returning for seven successive years or by such
person disappearing for seven successive years without being heard from,
or any such person known to be dead may, after diligent unsuccessful
effort to locate the heirs of such person for not less than two years after
such death shall have become known or presumed, petition the court hav-
ing jurisdiction over lands owned by such decedent for permission to sell
such land. Proceedings under this section shall conform as near as may
be to proceedings relating to the sale of land owned by an infant. Such
conservator shall account for the proceeds of said sale and the net proceeds
after disbursement of costs shall be conserved in such manner as the court
may deem proper.