Chap. 405.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
that no non-resident of this State shall be appointed or allowed to qualify as
personal representative, guardian or committee of a resident decedent, infant
or person non compos mentis, unless there be appointed also a resident personal
representative, guardian or committee, approved March 15, 1924, so as to
extend its provisions to apply to non-resident decedents, infants and persons
non compos mentis. [H B 445]

Approved March 30, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide that no non-resident of this State shall be
appointed or allowed to qualify as personal representative, guardian or
committee of a resident decedent, infant or person non compos mentis,
unless there be appointed also a resident personal representative,
guardian or committee, approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred
and twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. No person not a resident of this State nor any corpora-
tion not authorized to do business in this State shall be appointed or
allowed to qualify as personal representative 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, guardian or committee, a person
resident in this State or corporation authorized to do business in this

State ; provided, however, that when the non-resident guardian or com-

mittee is the parent of the infant or person non compos mentis, the

resident guardian appointed under this act shall have no control over
the person of the ward. Nothing in this act shall be construed to impair
the validity of any appointment or qualification antedating the taking
effect of this act, nor to affect in any way the provisions of chapter
two hundred and eighteen of the Code of Virginia, which chapter
relates to the transfer of property in this State belonging to decedents,
wards, insane persons or beneficiaries in another State or country. The
provisions of this act shall not authorize or allow any appointment or
qualification prohibited by section three of chapter five hundred and
seven, Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight, approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight, and known, designated and cited as the Virginia Banking Act.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.