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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62570</law_id><section_number>6.2-1001</section_number><catch_line>Entities authorized to engage in trust business</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>55.1-117</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Depository Institutions and Trust Organizations</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="10">Entities Conducting Trust Business</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Trust Powers and Trust Business</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No entities, except (i) corporations duly chartered and already conducting <span class="dictionary">trust business</span> in the Commonwealth under authority of the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth or the United States, (ii) banks hereafter incorporated under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth that are authorized to engage in the <span class="dictionary">trust business</span> through a separate trust department pursuant to Article 3 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Authority to engage in trust business; permission of Commission required" href="/6.2-819/">6.2-819</a> et seq.) of Chapter 8, (iii) corporations authorized to engage in the <span class="dictionary">trust business</span> in the Commonwealth under the banking <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the United States, including any national bank or federal savings bank described in clause (ii) of subsection B of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Trust business of out-of-state trust institution" href="/6.2-1067/">6.2-1067</a>, (iv) trust companies authorized to establish and operate one or more trust offices or engage in <span class="dictionary">trust business</span> in the Commonwealth under Article 2 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/6.2-1013/">6.2-1013</a> et seq.), (v) trust subsidiaries authorized to engage in <span class="dictionary">trust business</span> under Article 3 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/6.2-1047/">6.2-1047</a> et seq.), (vi) multistate <span class="dictionary">trust institutions</span> authorized to engage in <span class="dictionary">trust business</span> under Article 4 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/6.2-1065/">6.2-1065</a> et seq.), (vii) private trust companies authorized to engage in <span class="dictionary">trust business</span> under Article 5 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/6.2-1074/">6.2-1074</a> et seq.), or (viii) savings institutions authorized to engage in the <span class="dictionary">trust business</span> pursuant to Article 6 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/6.2-1081/">6.2-1081</a> et seq.), shall engage in the <span class="dictionary">trust business</span> in the Commonwealth. No foreign corporation, except as permitted in Chapter 7 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/6.2-700/">6.2-700</a> et seq.), shall engage in <span class="dictionary">trust business</span> in the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-228161" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1001/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Nothing in this chapter shall prevent: <a id="paragraph-228162" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1001/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> A natural <span class="dictionary">person</span> from qualifying and acting as trustee, personal representative, guardian, conservator, committee, or in any other fiduciary capacity; <a id="paragraph-228163" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1001/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Any <span class="dictionary">person</span> from (i) lending money on real estate and personal security or <span class="dictionary">collateral</span>, (ii) guaranteeing the payment of <span class="dictionary">bonds</span>, notes, bills and other obligations, or (iii) purchasing or selling stocks and <span class="dictionary">bonds</span>; <a id="paragraph-228164" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1001/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Any bank or <span class="dictionary">trust company</span> organized under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth from qualifying and acting in another state as trustee, personal representative, guardian of a <span class="dictionary">minor</span>, conservator, or committee or in any other fiduciary capacity, when permitted so to do by the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of such other state; or <a id="paragraph-228165" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1001/#B3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> An incorporated association that is authorized to sell burial association group life insurance certificates in the Commonwealth, as described in the definition of limited burial insurance authority in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/38.2-1800/">38.2-1800</a>, the principal purpose of which is to assist its members in (i) financial planning for their funerals and burials and (ii) obtaining insurance for the payment, in whole or in part, for funeral, burial, and related expenses, from serving as trustee of a trust established pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Deposit of money received pursuant to preneed funeral contract" href="/54.1-2822/">54.1-2822</a>. <a id="paragraph-228166" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1001/#B4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Nothing in this section shall be construed: <a id="paragraph-228167" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1001/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> To prevent any bank or <span class="dictionary">trust company</span> organized in the Commonwealth and chartered under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the United States from transacting business in the Commonwealth; or <a id="paragraph-228168" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1001/#C1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> To prevent a real estate broker as defined in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/54.1-2100/">54.1-2100</a> from owning or operating a bank provided that the requirements of this chapter are met. <a id="paragraph-228169" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1001/#C2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> Except as permitted by this chapter or by Article 3 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Authority to engage in trust business; permission of Commission required" href="/6.2-819/">6.2-819</a> et seq.) of Chapter 8, or by federal <span class="dictionary">law</span> in the case of a national bank or federal savings bank described in clause (ii) of subsection B of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Trust business of out-of-state trust institution" href="/6.2-1067/">6.2-1067</a>, no <span class="dictionary">entity</span> shall qualify or act (i) as a personal representative of a deceased <span class="dictionary">person</span>; (ii) as a guardian for an infant or an incapacitated <span class="dictionary">person</span>; (iii) as a committee; (iv) as a conservator for an incapacitated <span class="dictionary">person</span>; (v) as a testamentary trustee, or trustee for any other trust if required by <span class="dictionary">law</span> to account to the <span class="dictionary">commissioner</span> of accounts of a <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> in the Commonwealth; or (vi) in any other fiduciary capacity required to account to the <span class="dictionary">commissioner</span> of accounts of a <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> in the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-228170" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1001/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6-9; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-5; 1974, c. 286, &#xA7; 6.1-32.5; 1985, c. 544; 1995, c. 301; 1997, c. 801; 1999, c. 835; 2003, cc. 536, 558, 910; 2007, c. 621; 2010, c. 794; 2011, c. 67; 2012, c. 608.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
