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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61387</law_id><section_number>64.2-1504</section_number><catch_line>Investments in municipal bonds by banks or trust companies</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="15">Investments</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Subject to the Uniform Prudent Investor Act (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definition of terms" href="/64.2-780/">64.2-780</a> et seq.) and the <span class="dictionary">common law</span> duties of a <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span>, unless the governing instrument or a <span class="dictionary">court order</span> specifically directs otherwise, a bank or trust company serving as <span class="dictionary">personal representative</span>, <span class="dictionary">trustee</span>, guardian, agent, or in any other <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> capacity, may purchase during the existence of any underwriting or selling syndicate any state or municipal security otherwise authorized by this title in spite of the <span class="dictionary">fact</span> that the <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span>, or an affiliate thereof under common ownership, participates or has participated as a member of a syndicate underwriting such security if the <span class="dictionary">fiduciary</span> purchases the security from another syndicate member or from an affiliate thereof and not from itself or any of its affiliates.</p></section></text><history>1988, c. 347, &#xA7; 26-40.2; 1999, c. 772; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
