                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SURETIES ON OFFICIAL BONDS (§ 49-22)

When the surety, or his committee or personal representative, of any officer, or
commissioner or receiver under decree of a court, required to give bond shall
petition the court by which the bond is taken, or in which, or in the
clerk&#8217;s office of which, it is recorded, or the circuit court of the
county or city, in which, where the bond of such officer is not taken by or
filed in any court or clerk&#8217;s office, the officer resides, to be relieved
from the suretyship, such court shall, on proof of reasonable notice of his
intended motion, require such officer, commissioner or receiver to give a new
bond in the same manner as if none had been given by him. The surety in any bond
required to be approved by the Governor shall file his petition in the Circuit
Court of the City of Richmond, and the surety in the bond of any clerk of the
Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals shall file his petition in the court for
which his principal is the clerk.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5771; 1984, c. 703.