CHAPTER 203

An Act to amend and reenact § 57-19, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to conveyances of land to benevolent and other asso-
ciations, so as to include groups organized for community, recrea-
tional, improvement of farm life or operations and like purposes and
not for profit.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 57-19, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 57-19. When any conveyance of land has been or shall be made to
trustees for the use of any society of Freemasons, Odd Fellows, Sons of
Temperance, posts of Veterans of Foreign Wars or of the American
Legion, Spanish War Veterans, Disabled American Veterans and of other
associations of veterans of the armed forces of the United States, or any
other benevolent or literary associations, or school league, or other groups
organized for rural community civic purposes or improvement of farm life
or operations of like purposes and not for profit, or if without the inter-
vention of trustees such conveyance has been made since the thirty-first
day of March, eighteen hundred forty-eight, or shall be hereafter made for
such use, §§ 57-8, 57-11, 57-14 and 57-15 shall be construed as if they were
expressly made applicable to such association, post or society. Whenever
such association, post or society has been in undisputed possession, for a
period of twenty-five years or more, of any real estate, and for which
there is no deed of record, § 57-17 shall be construed as if it was expressly
made applicable to such association, post or society.