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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69025</law_id><section_number>13.1-1269</section_number><catch_line>Surrender of articles of trust upon domestication</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>13.1-1281</reference></referred_to_by><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="12">Domestication and Conversion</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Whenever a <span class="dictionary">domestic business trust</span> has adopted and approved, in the manner required by this article, a plan of <span class="dictionary">domestication</span> providing for the business trust to be domesticated under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of another <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span>, the business trust shall file with the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> <span class="dictionary">articles of trust</span> surrender setting forth: <a id="paragraph-249848" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The name of the business trust; <a id="paragraph-249849" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The business trust&#x2019;s new <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction of formation</span>; <a id="paragraph-249850" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The business trust&#x2019;s new <span class="dictionary">entity</span> type, if any; <a id="paragraph-249851" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> The plan of <span class="dictionary">domestication</span>; <a id="paragraph-249852" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#A4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> A statement that the <span class="dictionary">articles of trust</span> surrender are being filed in connection with the <span class="dictionary">domestication</span> of the business trust as a <span class="dictionary">foreign entity</span> to be formed under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of another jurisdiction and that the business trust is surrendering its charter under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of this Commonwealth; <a id="paragraph-249853" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#A5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A6" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> A statement that the plan was adopted by the business trust in accordance with &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Action on plan of domestication by a domestic business trust" href="/13.1-1267/">13.1-1267</a>; <a id="paragraph-249854" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#A6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A7" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> A statement that the <span class="dictionary">domestic business trust</span> revokes the authority of its registered agent to accept service on its behalf and appoints the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> as its agent for <span class="dictionary">service of process</span> in any proceeding based on a <span class="dictionary">cause of action</span> arising during the time it was formed in this Commonwealth; <a id="paragraph-249855" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#A7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A8" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">8.</span> A mailing address to which the clerk may mail a copy of any process served on him under subdivision 7; and <a id="paragraph-249856" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#A8"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A9" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">9.</span> A commitment to notify the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> in the future of any change in the mailing address of the business trust. <a id="paragraph-249857" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#A9"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> finds that the <span class="dictionary">articles of trust</span> surrender comply with the requirements of <span class="dictionary">law</span> and that all required fees have been paid, it shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a certificate of <span class="dictionary">trust surrender</span>. <a id="paragraph-249858" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The business trust shall automatically cease to be a <span class="dictionary">domestic business trust</span> when the certificate of <span class="dictionary">trust surrender</span> becomes effective. <a id="paragraph-249859" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> If the former <span class="dictionary">domestic business trust</span> intends to continue to transact business in the Commonwealth, then, within thirty days after the effective date of the certificate of <span class="dictionary">trust surrender</span>, it shall deliver to the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> an application for a certificate of authority to transact business in the Commonwealth pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Code of Virginia for the <span class="dictionary">resulting entity</span> type of the former <span class="dictionary">domestic business trust</span>. <a id="paragraph-249860" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/13.1-1269/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2002, c. 621.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
