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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?951+ful+CHAP0301\">301<\/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. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2010, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?101+ful+CHAP0794\">794<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":265565,"object_type":"law","relational_id":59364,"identifier":"6.2-851","token":"6.2\/II\/8\/7\/6.2-851","url":"\/6.2-851\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/6.2-851\/","token":"6.2\/II\/8\/7\/6.2-851","dublin_core":{"Title":"Interstate merger transactions and branching permitted","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 6.2-851","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p><span class=\"dictionary\">Virginia banks<\/span> may merge with out-of-<span class=\"dictionary\">state banks<\/span> under this article, and an out-of-<span class=\"dictionary\">state bank<\/span> resulting from such an interstate merger transaction may maintain and operate the branches in the Commonwealth of a merged <span class=\"dictionary\">Virginia bank<\/span>, provided the requirements of this article are met.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nINTERSTATE MERGER TRANSACTIONS AND BRANCHING PERMITTED (\u00a7 6.2-851)\n\nVirginia banks may merge with out-of-state banks under this article, and an\nout-of-state bank resulting from such an interstate merger transaction may\nmaintain and operate the branches in the Commonwealth of a merged Virginia bank,\nprovided the requirements of this article are met.\n\nHISTORY: 1995, c. 301, \u00a7 6.1-44.18; 2010, c. 794.","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}}