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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54829</law_id><section_number>64.2-1216</section_number><catch_line>Failure to account; enforcement</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>22.1-126</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="64.2">Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Fiduciaries and Guardians</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="A">Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="12">Commissioners of Accounts</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> If any <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> required to account fails to make a complete and proper account within the time allowed, the commissioner of accounts shall either (i) proceed against the <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> in accordance with the procedures set forth in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Power of commissioner of accounts to enforce the filing of inventories" href="/64.2-1215/">64.2-1215</a> or (ii) file with the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> and the clerk at such times as the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall <span class="dictionary">order</span>, but not less than twice a year, a list of all fiduciaries who have failed to make a complete and proper account within the time allowed, excepting those fiduciaries to whom the commissioner of accounts has granted additional time. Upon the filing of this list, the clerk shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a <span class="dictionary">summons</span> against each <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> on the list, returnable to the first day of the next term of <span class="dictionary">court</span>, and the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall take action against the <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> in accordance with the procedures set forth in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Power of commissioner of accounts to enforce the filing of inventories" href="/64.2-1215/">64.2-1215</a>. <a id="paragraph-201172" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1216/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Every commissioner of accounts shall file with the <span class="dictionary">court</span> and the clerk at such times as the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall <span class="dictionary">order</span>, but not less than quarterly, a list of all fiduciaries whose accounts for any reason have been before the commissioner of accounts for more than five months. The commissioner of accounts shall note on the list the fiduciaries who are deemed delinquent. <a id="paragraph-201173" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1216/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Whenever the commissioner of accounts reports to the <span class="dictionary">court</span> that a <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> who is an attorney-at-<span class="dictionary">law</span> licensed to practice in the Commonwealth has failed to make the required <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> within 30 days after the date of service of a <span class="dictionary">summons</span>, the commissioner of accounts shall also mail a copy of his report to the Virginia State Bar. <a id="paragraph-201174" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1216/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1919, &#xA7; 5408; 1936, p. 250; 1946, p. 325; Code 1950, &#xA7; 26-18; 1995, c. 653; 1997, c. 842; 1999, c. 378; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
