CHAPTER 26

An Act to amend and reenact § 6-188 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the payment of small credit balances to the next of kin of decedents
by building and loan associations and federal savings and loan asso-

citations.
(H 165]
Approved February 11, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 6-188 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ows:

§ 6-188. When the credit balance in any association of a deceased
person, upon whose estate there shall have been no qualification, shall
not exceed * five hundred dollars, it shall be lawful for such association,
after one hundred twenty days from the death of such person, to pay such
balance to his next of kin, whose receipt therefor shall be a full discharge
and acquittance to such association as to all persons whomsoever on ac-
count of such balance. The provisions of this section shall apply equally to
pra! fsa savings and loan associations lawfully engaged in business in

is