CHAPTER 423

An Act to amend and reenact § 6-54 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the payment of certain bank balances to next of kin of a aa

Approved March 15, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 6-54 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows: .

§ 6-54. When the balance in any bank or trust company to the
credit 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 bank or trust company, after one hundred and 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 bank
or trust company to all persons whomsoever on account of such deposit.