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2023 SESSION
23101609DBe 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.