CHAPTER 520

An Act to amend and reenact § 64-119.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the payment of certain small sums due deceased persons upon whose
estate there has been no qualification.

([S 65]
Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. ' tea § 64-119.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 64-119.1. When a person for whom no committee or trustee has
been appointed is committed to a mental institution supported by the State
and dies therein and there is in the hands of the superintendent of such
institution a sum not exceeding * one thousand dollars, the property of such
deceased person, and there has been no qualification upon the estate of such
deceased person within one hundred twenty days following the death of
such person, then such superintendent may pay such sum to the surviving
consort, if any, and if none, then to the next of kin of the decedent whose
receipt therefor shall be a full discharge and acquittance to the superin-
tendent on account of such sums, and if none such then to the court having
Jurisdiction over the appointment of the personal representative of the
decedent who may distribute the same in accordance with § 8-750.