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2023 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 57-18 and 57-21 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 57-18. Conveyance for charitable purpose to unincorporated bodies, societies, groups, associations, or posts.
In any case where, since June 18, 1914, there has been, or at
any time hereafter there may be, (i) any gift, grant, or devise
of real estate or personal property for charitable purposes to an
unincorporated body or, society, group, association, or post,
including those referenced in § 57-19, whether such gift, grant, or
devise be directly to such body or, society, group,
association, or post or to it in trust for charitable uses, or (ii) a
need for appointment or confirmation of election of trustees for such unincorporated
body, society, group, association, or post to effect and promote the purpose
and object of such unincorporated body, society, group, association, or post,
trustees to hold the same may, if such unincorporated body or,
society, group, association, or post so elects, be appointed in
accordance with the procedure prescribed by § 57-8, and such trustees shall
hold the trust subject in accordance with the provisions of §§ 57-11, 57-13,
57-14 and, 57-15, 57-15.1, 57-16, and 57-17 in like manner
as if such sections had been made expressly applicable to such unincorporated
body or, society, group, association, or post. For the
purposes of this section, the words church, society, denomination,
congregation, religious congregation, religious body, religious denomination,
and religious congregation or organization, appearing in the aforesaid
sections, shall be interpreted to refer to such unincorporated body or,
society, group, association, or post.
§ 57-21. May hold personal property through trustees.
Any such unincorporated body, society, group,
association, or post referenced in § 57-18 or 57-19 may acquire personal
property for its use, and hold the same and any such as it may have heretofore
acquired, through the intervention of trustees in whom the legal title shall be
vested for its benefit; and the circuit court of the county, or the circuit
court of the city, locality in which the meetings of such
unincorporated body, society, group, association, or post are
usually held, or the judge of such court in vacation, may, on the application
of the proper authorities of the unincorporated body, society, group,
association, or post, from time to time, appoint trustees, either where
there were or are none, or in place of former trustees, and change those so appointed,
as may seem to the court or judge to be proper; and the legal title to such
personal property shall be vested in the trustees, for the time being, and
their successors, for the use and benefit of the unincorporated body,
society, group, association, or post.