Chap. 160.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1050-a of the Code of Vir-
ginia relating to trustees for certain incompetent persons. {H 41]

Approved March 9, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section ten hundred fifty-a of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows: :

Section 1050-a. Trustees for incompetent ex-service persons
and beneficiaries of ex-service persons——Whenever any former
soldier, sailor or marine, or other ex-service person of the United
States, or beneficiary of any ex-service person is found to be incom-
petent by the medical authorities of the Veterans’ Administration,
on motion of the Veterans’ Administration or any person in inter-
est, accompanied by a certificate of the Administrator of Veterans’
Affairs or his duly authorized representative, certifying that such
person has been rated incompetent by the Veterans’ Administra-
tion and that the appointment of a trustee is a condition precedent
to the payment of any moneys due such ex-service person or any
beneficiary of such ex-service person after reasonable notice to
such person, the circuit court of the county or the corporation or
hustings court of the city of which such ex-service person or bene-
ficiary of such ex-service person is a legal resident, or such other
courts in said city as have jurisdiction to appoint committees for
insane persons, or the judges thereof in vacation, except that the
chancery court of the city of Richmond or the judge thereof in
vacation shall have exclusive jurisdiction of such matters under
this section for any person who resides in that part of the city of
Richmond which lies on the north side of the James River, in lieu
of appointing a committee, or adjudging such ex-service person or.
beneficiary of such ex-service person insane, shall appoint a trustee
for such ex-service person, or beneficiary of such ex-service person,
where it appears to the court that a trustee is needed for the pur-
pose of receiving and administering such benefits of compensation
or insurance as might be paid by the United States Government.
Such trustee, in addition to such duties and obligations imposed
upon him under his trust by the federal government, shall be sub-
ject to such State laws as are now in force or hereafter enacted
applicable to the appointment and administration of committees
for insane persons.

Any person for whom a trustee has been appointed under the
provisions of this section may thereafter be adjudged competent
by the court or judge thereof in vacation which appointed the
trustee. .