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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85760</law_id><section_number>13.1-1202</section_number><catch_line>Filing requirements</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="13.1">Corporations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="14">Virginia Business Trust Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A document shall satisfy the requirements of this section, and of any other section that adds to or varies these requirements, to be entitled to be filed with the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>. <a id="paragraph-307126" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The document shall be one that this chapter requires or permits to be filed with the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>. <a id="paragraph-307127" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The document shall contain the information required by this chapter. It may also contain other information. <a id="paragraph-307128" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> The document shall be typewritten or printed. The typewritten or printed portion shall be in black. Photocopies, or other reproduced copies, of typewritten or printed documents may be filed. In every case, information in the document shall be legible and the document shall be capable of being reformatted and reproduced in copies of archival quality. <a id="paragraph-307129" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="E"><p><span class="prefix-number">E.</span> The document shall be in the English language. A business trust name need not be in English if written in English letters or Arabic or Roman numerals. The <span class="dictionary">articles of trust</span>, duly authenticated by the official having <span class="dictionary">custody</span> of the applicable records in the state or other <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> under whose <span class="dictionary">law</span> the business trust is formed, which are required of each <span class="dictionary">foreign business trust</span>, need not be in English if accompanied by a reasonably authenticated English translation. <a id="paragraph-307130" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#E"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="F"><p><span class="prefix-number">F.</span> The document shall be signed in the name of the domestic or <span class="dictionary">foreign business trust</span>: <a id="paragraph-307131" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#F"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="F1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> By a <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> or by an officer of the business trust; <a id="paragraph-307132" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#F1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="F2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> If the business trust has not been formed, by the <span class="dictionary">person</span> forming the business trust; or <a id="paragraph-307133" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#F2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="F3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> If the business trust is in the hands of a receiver, <span class="dictionary">trustee</span>, or other <span class="dictionary">court</span>-appointed fiduciary, by that fiduciary. <a id="paragraph-307134" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#F3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="G"><p><span class="prefix-number">G.</span> The <span class="dictionary">person</span> executing the document shall sign it and state beneath or opposite his signature his name and the capacity in which he executes the document. Any signature may be a facsimile. <a id="paragraph-307135" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#G"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="H"><p><span class="prefix-number">H.</span> If, pursuant to any provision of this chapter, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> has prescribed a mandatory form for the document, the document shall be in or on the prescribed form. <a id="paragraph-307136" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#H"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="I"><p><span class="prefix-number">I.</span> The document shall be delivered to the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> for filing and shall be accompanied by the required filing fee and any registration fee required by this chapter. <a id="paragraph-307137" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#I"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="J"><p><span class="prefix-number">J.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may accept the electronic filing of any information required or permitted to be filed by this chapter and may prescribe the methods of execution, recording, reproduction and certification of electronically filed information. <a id="paragraph-307138" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1202/#J"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2002, c. 621; 2013, c. 25.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
