                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

APPOINTMENT OF TRUSTEES TO EFFECT THE PURPOSES OF CONVEYANCES, ETC.; VALIDATION
OF CERTAIN APPOINTMENTS (§ 57-8)

The circuit court of the county or the circuit court of the city, or the judge
thereof in vacation, wherein there is any parcel of such land or the greater
part thereof may, on the application of the proper authorities of an
unincorporated church or religious body or branch or division thereof, from time
to time appoint trustees, either where there were, or are, none or in place of
former trustees, and on such application and without notice to the trustee or
trustees change those so appointed whenever it may seem to the court or judge
proper to effect and promote the purpose and object of the conveyance, devise,
or dedication, and the legal title to such land shall for that purpose and
object be vested in the trustees for the time being and their successors.
		All such changes and appointments heretofore [before March 31, 1966] made are
hereby validated, ratified, approved and confirmed.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 39; 1962, c. 516; 1966, c. 216; 2005, c. 772.