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This law was first created in 1999. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 874<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":251391,"object_type":"law","relational_id":63250,"identifier":"56-231.31","token":"56\/9.1\/1\/56-231.31","url":"\/56-231.31\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/56-231.31\/","token":"56\/9.1\/1\/56-231.31","dublin_core":{"Title":"Payment of certain patronage capital to spouse or next of kin of deceased person","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 56-231.31","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

When there is held by any cooperative<\/span> any patronage capital<\/span> to the credit of a deceased person<\/span>, in an amount not exceeding $10,000, upon whose estate there shall have been no qualification, it shall be lawful for such electric cooperative<\/span>, after 120 days from the death of such person<\/span>, to pay such balance to his or her spouse, and if none, to his or her next of kin, whose receipt therefor shall be a full discharge and acquittance to such electric cooperative<\/span> to all persons<\/span> whomsoever on account of such patronage capital<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPAYMENT OF CERTAIN PATRONAGE CAPITAL TO SPOUSE OR NEXT OF KIN OF DECEASED PERSON\n(\u00a7 56-231.31)\n\nWhen there is held by any cooperative any patronage capital to the credit of a\ndeceased person, in an amount not exceeding $10,000, upon whose estate there\nshall have been no qualification, it shall be lawful for such electric\ncooperative, after 120 days from the death of such person, to pay such balance\nto his or her spouse, and if none, to his or her next of kin, whose receipt\ntherefor shall be a full discharge and acquittance to such electric cooperative\nto all persons whomsoever on account of such patronage capital.\n\nHISTORY: 1999, c. 874.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}