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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54145</law_id><section_number>6.2-1056</section_number><catch_line>When security not required of trust subsidiaries</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>6.2-1058</reference><reference>6.2-1059</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="3">Trust Subsidiaries</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No <span class="dictionary">trust subsidiary</span> with combined unimpaired capital stock and surplus of $200,000 or more shall be required by any officer or <span class="dictionary">court</span> of the Commonwealth to give security upon appointment to or acceptance of any office or trust that it may, by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, be authorized to execute. No <span class="dictionary">trust subsidiary</span> shall qualify in a <span class="dictionary">fiduciary capacity</span> on an estate that has a value in excess of its combined unimpaired capital and surplus, without giving security for such excess, unless:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The requirement that the <span class="dictionary">trust subsidiary</span> give security for such excess is waived by the <span class="dictionary">person</span> creating such fiduciary relationship; <a id="paragraph-198737" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1056/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> A <span class="dictionary">Virginia bank holding company</span> or a bank owning, directly or indirectly through a <span class="dictionary">subsidiary bank</span>, 100 percent of the stock, exclusive of directors&#x2019; qualifying shares, of the <span class="dictionary">trust subsidiary</span> files with the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> and with the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> for the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> in which the main office of the bank holding company or bank is located an undertaking to be fully responsible for the existing and future fiduciary acts and omissions of its <span class="dictionary">trust subsidiary</span>. If such undertaking is filed, a <span class="dictionary">trust subsidiary</span> may qualify in a <span class="dictionary">fiduciary capacity</span> without giving security if the <span class="dictionary">assets</span> it is to receive in such capacity have a value not greater than the combined and unimpaired capital and surplus of the parent <span class="dictionary">Virginia bank holding company</span> or parent bank that has undertaken to be responsible for the acts of such <span class="dictionary">trust subsidiary</span>. If no such undertaking shall have been filed, and corporate <span class="dictionary">surety</span> is provided, the premium thereof shall be borne by the <span class="dictionary">trust subsidiary</span> and not the fiduciary estate; or <a id="paragraph-198738" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1056/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> If an <span class="dictionary">affiliate bank</span> shall already have qualified in any <span class="dictionary">fiduciary capacity</span> and given <span class="dictionary">bond</span>, without security, and the <span class="dictionary">trust subsidiary</span> or <span class="dictionary">subsidiary bank</span> shall qualify as successor fiduciary, then, if the <span class="dictionary">order</span> of substitution so provides, and the fiduciary for which there is to be substitution consents, the predecessor fiduciary shall remain liable on its <span class="dictionary">bond</span> for the acts of its named successor and no security shall be required of the successor fiduciary, if the <span class="dictionary">bond</span> of the fiduciary for which there is to be substitution is otherwise sufficient. <a id="paragraph-198739" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-1056/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1974, c. 286, &#xA7; 6.1-32.7; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
