                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONVEYANCE FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSE TO UNINCORPORATED BODIES, SOCIETIES, GROUPS,
ASSOCIATIONS, OR POSTS (§ 57-18)

In any case where, since June 18, 1914, there has been, or at any time hereafter
there may be, (i) any gift, grant, or devise of real estate or personal property
for charitable purposes to an unincorporated body, society, group, association,
or post, including those referenced in § 57-19, whether such gift, grant, or
devise be directly to such body, society, group, association, or post or to it
in trust for charitable uses, or (ii) a need for appointment or confirmation of
election of trustees for such unincorporated body, society, group, association,
or post to effect and promote the purpose and object of such unincorporated
body, society, group, association, or post, trustees may, if such unincorporated
body, society, group, association, or post so elects, be appointed in accordance
with the procedure prescribed by § 57-8, and such trustees shall hold the trust
subject in accordance with the provisions of §§ 57-11, 57-13, 57-14, 57-15,
57-15.1, 57-16, and 57-17 in like manner as if such sections had been made
expressly applicable to such unincorporated body, society, group, association,
or post. For the purposes of this section, the words church, society,
denomination, congregation, religious congregation, religious body, religious
denomination, and religious congregation or organization, appearing in the
aforesaid sections, shall be interpreted to refer to such unincorporated body,
society, group, association, or post.

HISTORY: 1928, p. 25; Michie Code 1942, § 49a; 2023, c. 541.