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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62734</law_id><section_number>6.2-821</section_number><catch_line>Separation of banking and trust functions; establishment of trust department</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>6.2-1012</reference><reference>6.2-818.1</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="8">Banks</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Conduct of Trust Business by Banks</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every <span class="dictionary">state bank</span> that obtains permission from the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> to engage in trust business shall establish a separate trust department. Such department shall be established before such institution undertakes to act in any fiduciary capacity and shall be placed under the management of an officer or officers whose duties shall be prescribed by the board of directors of the institution or by either an amendment to the bylaws of the institution or by a resolution duly entered in the minutes of the board of directors.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6-97; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-20; 1993, c. 432; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
