2010 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - PROPERTY AND CONVEYANCES.
Chapter 10 - Escheats Generally (55-168 thru 55-201.1)
55-169 - Their bond; their removal.
§ 55-169. Their bond; their removal.
Each escheator shall give bond for the judicial circuit for which he is appointed in the circuit court for the locality in which he resides, in the penalty of $3,000, and may continue in office until removed or until a successor is duly appointed and qualified. If property in another locality within the appointed judicial circuit escheats to the Commonwealth at the inquest hearing, the escheator shall give bond within that locality as determined by the clerk of the circuit court in the locality and in a penalty of a percentage of the assessed value of the property according to the records of the commissioner of the revenue. The bond must be obtained within ten days following the inquest hearing.
(Code 1919, § 490; 1977, c. 583; 1982, c. 437; 1998, c. 215.)
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