Chap. 129.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6300 of the Code of Virginia
as heretofore amended, relating to the execution of trusts where certain trustees
have died, resigned, become incapable of executing the trust, declined to accept
the trust, or removed from the State. [H B 96]

Approved March 9, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty-three hundred of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, be
amended, and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6300. Who to execute the trust until new trustee ap-
pointed—Until such appointment is ‘made under section sixty-two
hundred and ninety-eight, the personal representative of a deceased sole
trustee or of a deceased trustee who at the time of his death was the
only trustee qualified to act, or if there be more than one trustee, and one
or more but less than all of them have died, resigned, or become incapable
of executing the trust on account of physical or mental disability or con-
finement in prison or other institution, or removed from the State, or
declined to accept the trust, the remaining trustee or trustees, shall execute
the trust, or so much thereof as remained unexecuted at the death, re-
moval, declination, or resignation aforesaid, or at the time of such inca-
pacity (whether the trust subj ject be real or personal property) unless the
instrument creating the trust directs otherwise, or some other trustee be
appointed for the purpose by a court of chancery having jurisdiction of
the case. This section and the two preceding sections shall not apply to
any case provided for by section five hundred and ninety.