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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 442 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. Unfortunately, the 1979 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":250195,"object_type":"law","relational_id":61079,"identifier":"56-501.1","token":"56\/16\/56-501.1","url":"\/56-501.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/56-501.1\/","token":"56\/16\/56-501.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Payment of certain patronage capital to spouse or next of kin of deceased person","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 56-501.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>When there is held by any telephone <span class=\"dictionary\">cooperative<\/span>, engaged in the business of furnishing <span class=\"dictionary\">telephone service<\/span>, any patronage capital to the credit of a deceased <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span>, in an amount not exceeding $500, upon whose estate there shall have been no qualification, it shall be lawful for such telephone <span class=\"dictionary\">cooperative<\/span>, after 120 days from the death of such <span class=\"dictionary\">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 telephone <span class=\"dictionary\">cooperative<\/span> to all <span class=\"dictionary\">persons<\/span> whomsoever on account of such patronage capital.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPAYMENT OF CERTAIN PATRONAGE CAPITAL TO SPOUSE OR NEXT OF KIN OF DECEASED PERSON\n(\u00a7 56-501.1)\n\nWhen there is held by any telephone cooperative, engaged in the business of\nfurnishing telephone service, any patronage capital to the credit of a deceased\nperson, in an amount not exceeding $500, upon whose estate there shall have been\nno qualification, it shall be lawful for such telephone cooperative, after 120\ndays from the death of such person, to pay such balance to his or her spouse,\nand if none, to his or her next of kin, whose receipt therefor shall be a full\ndischarge and acquittance to such telephone cooperative to all persons\nwhomsoever on account of such patronage capital.\n\nHISTORY: 1979, c. 442.","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}}