CHAPTER 210
An Act to amend and reenact § 8-746 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to proceedings when owner of money under the control of court is
unknown.

[H 61]
Approved March 81, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
aa That § 8-746 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 8-746. Whenever any money has remained for five years in the
custody or under the control of any court of this State without anyone
known to the court claiming the same the court shall, when the amount
is * five hundred dollars or more, cause a publication to be made once a
week for * two successive weeks in some newspaper published in the city
or county in which the court is located or if there be none then in a news-
paper having general circulation therein, setting forth the amount of
the money, the source from which it was derived, in what court and in
what suit or proceeding it is held, and in whose hands it is, and requiring
all persons having any claim to it to appear before the court within such
time after the completion of the publication as the court prescribes and
establish their claim. If the sum be less than * five hundred dollars, the
court shall direct the same to be paid into the State treasury, and a proper
voucher for the payment taken and filed among the records of the court.