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2011 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 6.2-1001 and 6.2-1014 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 6.2-1001. Entities authorized to engage in trust business.
A. No entities, except (i) corporations duly chartered and
already conducting trust business in the Commonwealth under authority of the
laws of the Commonwealth or the United States, (ii) banks hereafter incorporated
under the laws of the Commonwealth that are authorized to engage in the trust
business through a separate trust department pursuant to Article 3 (§ 6.2-819
et seq.) of Chapter 8, (iii) corporations authorized to engage in the trust
business in the Commonwealth under the banking laws of the United States, (iv) a
national banking association, with or without an office in the Commonwealth and
without compliance with the provisions of Article 4 (§ 6.2-1065 et seq.) of
this chapter, that is supervised and regulated by the federal Comptroller of
the Currency and is authorized by the Comptroller of the Currency to act as
trustee, executor, or administrator, or in any other fiduciary capacity in the
Commonwealth, pursuant to § 92a of the National Banking Act (12 U.S.C. § 21 et
seq.) and the Comptroller of the Currency’s regulations thereunder, (v) trust
companies authorized to establish and operate one or more trust offices or
engage in trust business in the Commonwealth under Article 2 (§ 6.2-1013 et
seq.) of this chapter, (v vi) trust subsidiaries authorized to
engage in trust business under Article 3 (§ 6.2-1047 et seq.) of this chapter,
(vi vii) multistate trust institutions authorized to engage in trust
business under Article 4 (§ 6.2-1065 et seq.) of this chapter, (vii
viii) private trust companies authorized to engage in trust business under
Article 5 (§ 6.2-1074 et seq.) of this chapter, or (viii ix)
savings institutions authorized to engage in the trust business pursuant to
Article 6 (§ 6.2-1081 et seq.) of this chapter, shall engage in the trust
business in the Commonwealth. No foreign corporation, except as permitted in
Chapter 7 (§ 6.2-700 et seq.), shall engage in trust business in the Commonwealth.
B. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent:
1. A natural person from qualifying and acting as trustee, personal representative, guardian, conservator, committee, or in any other fiduciary capacity;
2. Any person from (i) lending money on real estate and personal security or collateral, (ii) guaranteeing the payment of bonds, notes, bills and other obligations, or (iii) purchasing or selling stocks and bonds;
3. Any bank or trust company organized under the laws of the Commonwealth from qualifying and acting in another state as trustee, personal representative, guardian of a minor, conservator, or committee or in any other fiduciary capacity, when permitted so to do by the laws of such other state; or
4. An incorporated association that is authorized to sell burial association group life insurance certificates in the Commonwealth, as described in the definition of limited burial insurance authority in § 38.2-1800, the principal purpose of which is to assist its members in (i) financial planning for their funerals and burials and (ii) obtaining insurance for the payment, in whole or in part, for funeral, burial, and related expenses, from serving as trustee of a trust established pursuant to § 54.1-2822.
C. Nothing in this section shall be construed:
1. To prevent any bank or trust company organized in the Commonwealth and chartered under the laws of the United States from transacting business in the Commonwealth; or
2. To prevent a real estate broker as defined in § 54.1-2100 from owning or operating a bank provided that the requirements of this chapter are met.
D. Except as permitted by this chapter or by Article 3 (§
6.2-819 et seq.) of Chapter 8, or by federal law in the case of a national
banking association having its main office in the Commonwealth
described in clause (iv) of subsection A, no entity shall qualify or act
(i) as a personal representative of a deceased person; (ii) as a guardian for
an infant or an incapacitated person; (iii) as a committee; (iv) as a
conservator for an incapacitated person; (v) as a testamentary trustee, or
trustee for any other trust if required by law to account to the commissioner
of accounts of a circuit court in the Commonwealth; or (vi) in any other
fiduciary capacity required to account to the commissioner of accounts of a
circuit court in the Commonwealth.
§ 6.2-1014. Certificate required.
No person shall engage in the trust business without first obtaining a certificate of authority from the Commission; however, a bank or savings institution authorized under state or federal laws to engage in the trust business or a trust subsidiary, including a national banking association described in clause (iv) of subsection A of § 6.2-1001, may engage in such business to the extent permitted by law without obtaining a certificate under this article.