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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58244</law_id><section_number>15.2-2621</section_number><catch_line>Bonds mutilated, lost or destroyed</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>10.1-1607</reference><reference>2.2-2205</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="26">Public Finance Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Provisions Applicable to All Bonds</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If any <span class="dictionary">bond</span> is mutilated, destroyed or lost, the <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> of the <span class="dictionary">locality</span> obligated to pay the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> may cause a new <span class="dictionary">bond</span> of like date, number and tenor to be executed and delivered in exchange and substitution for and upon the cancellation of the mutilated <span class="dictionary">bond</span>, or in lieu of and in substitution for the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> destroyed or lost, upon the owner paying the reasonable expense and charges in connection therewith. In the case of a <span class="dictionary">bond</span> destroyed or lost, its owner may be required to file with the person having <span class="dictionary">custody</span> of the funds from which the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> is to be paid <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> satisfactory to that person that the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> was destroyed or lost, and <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> of the ownership of the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> and may be required to furnish indemnity satisfactory to that person.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 15-666.50; 1958, c. 640; 1962, c. 623, &#xA7; 15.1-209; 1986, c. 468; 1991, c. 668, &#xA7; 15.1-227.23; 1997, c. 587.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
