CHAPTER 82

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 6-264.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating
ie the duty to deny access to safe deposit boxes under certain con-

Aittons.
(H 148]
Approved February 21, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 6-264.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 6-264.1. In any case where a company, bank, trust company or
other corporation having for rent safe deposit boxes is served with notice
of lien of fieri facias or other process under §§ 8-406, 8-411, 8-412, *
8-431 to 8-433, or § 58-1010, 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 judg-
ment creditor. Any bank so denying access shall not be liable for any loss
occasioned thereby to such renter or lessee.