CODE OF VIRGINIA

PAYMENT OF CERTAIN PATRONAGE CAPITAL TO SPOUSE OR NEXT OF KIN OF DECEASED PERSON
(§ 56-231.31)

When there is held by any cooperative any patronage capital to the credit of a
deceased person, in an amount not exceeding $ 10,000, upon whose estate there
shall have been no qualification, it shall be lawful for such electric
cooperative, after 120 days from the death of such person, to pay such balance
to his or her spouse, and if none, to his or her next of kin, whose receipt
therefor shall be a full discharge and acquittance to such electric cooperative
to all persons whomsoever on account of such patronage capital.

HISTORY: 1999, c. 874.