2014 Virginia Code
Title 2.2 - Administration of Government
§ 2.2-4514. Commonwealth and its political subdivisions as trustee of public funds; standard of care in investing such funds


VA Code § 2.2-4514 (2014) What's This?

Public funds held by the Commonwealth, public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and any other public body of the Commonwealth shall be held in trust for the citizens of the Commonwealth. Any investment of such funds pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be made solely in the interest of the citizens of the Commonwealth and with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent person acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims.

1996, c. 437, ยง 2.1-328.14; 2001, c. 844.

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