CHAPTER 11

An Act to amend and reenact § 6-55 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to how certain deposits discharged when in the names of two or
more persons or survivors.

[H 86]

Approved February 13, 1954

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 6-55 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:
_ § 6-55. When a deposit has been made, or shall hereafter be made,
in any bank or trust company transacting business in this State, under
the names of two or more persons, payable to either, or payable to the
survivor or any survivor, such deposit, or any part thereof, or any interest
or dividend thereon, may be paid to any of such persons, whether the
other or others be living or not, and the receipt or acquittance of the
person so paid shall be a valid, sufficient and complete release and dis-
charge of the bank or trust company for any payment so made. The term
deposit” Shall include certificates of deposit, heretofore and hereafter
issued.

CHAPTER 11
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE

§ 11.01. Department of Public Welfare——There shall be a depart-
ment of public welfare which shall consist of the superintendent of public
welfare who may also be superintendent of public welfare of a county or
counties or other city and such other officers and employees as may D
assigned to this department in accordance with the provisions of this
charter. The superintendent of public welfare shall be appointed by the
local board of public welfare from a list of eligibles furnished by the
State Commissioner of Public Welfare. He shall have charge of the public
welfare functions of the city and such other functions and activities as
may be assigned to him in accordance with the provisions of this charter.
The local board of public welfare shall be constituted in any manner pro-
vided by general law.

CHAPTER 11
Circuit Courts Having Jurisdiction in City

11.01.— Jurisdiction.

The circuit court of Carroll county and the circuit court of Grayson
county shall have concurrent jurisdiction in the City, in all respects as
corporation courts have in other Cities, in so far as such jurisdiction is
applicable to cities of the second class; provided, however, that the power
of appointment of any officer or board required under the constitution to
be made by the circuit court, or the judge thereof, having jurisdiction over
the City, shall be vested in the circuit court of Grayson County.