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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56787</law_id><section_number>6.2-1007</section_number><catch_line>Investment of trust funds</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>2.2-4519</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> Funds received or held by a <span class="dictionary">trust institution</span> awaiting investment or distribution shall be invested or distributed as soon as practicable and shall not be held uninvested by the <span class="dictionary">trust institution</span> any longer than is reasonably necessary. <a id="paragraph-207798" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1007/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If the instrument creating the trust does not specify the character or class of investments to be made, and does not expressly grant to the <span class="dictionary">trust institution</span>, its officers or directors discretion in the matter of investments, funds held in trust shall be invested in any securities in which corporate or individual fiduciaries may lawfully invest. <a id="paragraph-207799" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1007/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> If the instrument under which a <span class="dictionary">trust institution</span> is serving as fiduciary or cofiduciary does authorize it to retain: <a id="paragraph-207800" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1007/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Its own stock or securities, it shall be authorized to retain in like manner the stock or securities of a bank holding company of which it is a subsidiary; or <a id="paragraph-207801" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1007/#C1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The stock or securities of a bank or <span class="dictionary">trust company</span> to the business of which the fiduciary has succeeded, or the stock or securities of a bank or <span class="dictionary">trust company</span> which has become a subsidiary of a bank holding company, such fiduciary shall be authorized in like manner to retain the stock of the successor bank or <span class="dictionary">trust company</span> or bank holding company. <a id="paragraph-207802" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1007/#C2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 6-98, 6-101; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-23; 1972, c. 740; 1974, c. 665; 1993, c. 432; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
