                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RENTAL FOR STORAGE UNPAID FOR THREE YEARS (§ 6.2-2312)

If a company has received for safekeeping from any person any package or box to
be stored in its general vault, and the rental for such storage shall have
remained unpaid for a period of three years, the company shall have the right to
open such package or box and to have the contents thereof inventoried, upon
compliance substantially with the procedure as to witnesses, notices, and
certificates provided for the opening of any box in §§ 6.2-2305 through
6.2-2308. If the rental or other charges for the safekeeping of such package or
box and the charges incident to the opening of the same remain unpaid for a
period of two years from the date of such opening, the contents thereof may be
sold upon compliance substantially with the procedure provided for the sale of
the contents of any box in § 6.2-2310, and the proceeds of such sale shall be
treated in the same manner provided for the treatment of the proceeds of sale of
the contents of any box in § 6.2-2311.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 6-273; 1966, c. 584, § 6.1-342; 2010, c. 794.