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2003 SESSION


CHAPTER 437
An Act to amend and reenact § 6.1-334 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the opening of certain safety deposit boxes.
[H 2488]
Approved March 16, 2003

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 6.1-334 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 6.1-334. Opening box; marking contents.

Upon the expiration of sixty 60 days from the date of mailing the notice required by § 6.1-331 and the failure within such period of time of the renter or lessee in whose name the safe or box stands on the books of the company, bank, trust company, or other corporation to pay the amount due for the rental thereof to the time of payment, together with legal interest thereon, the company, bank, trust company, or other corporation may, in the presence of a notary public not in its employ, and of its president or any vice-president, assistant secretary, assistant treasurer, secretary, treasurer, cashier or assistant cashier, two bank employees, one of whom shall be a notary public, cause such safe or box to be opened, and the contents thereof, if any, to be removed, inventoried and sealed up by such notary public in a package, upon which the notary shall distinctly mark the name of the renter or lessee in whose name the safe or box stood on the books of the company, bank, trust company or other corporation, and the date of removal of the property.