CHAPTER 171

An Act to amend and reenact § 64-119 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the payment of certain small sums due persons upon whose estates
there has been no qualification, so as to increase the maximum that
may be paid to one thousand dollars.

[H 404]

Approved March 1, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

An That § 64-119 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 64-119. Payment of certain small sums due persons upon whose
estates there has been no qualification—-When there is due a sum of
not exceeding * one thousand dollars from the State or the United States
as a pension or money allowed for burial expenses of soldiers, or
from any employer to a deceased employee, upon whose estate there has
been no qualification, the State, the United States or such employer, after
one hundred and twenty days from the death of such person to whom such
money is due, may pay such sum to his or her surviving consort, if any,
and if none such, then to the distributees of the decedent under the laws
of this State whose receipt therefor shall be a full discharge and acquittance
to all persons whomsoever on account of such sum.