§ 64.1-124.1. Payment of small sum due deceased patient of municipally operated health care facility to survivin...
When there is due from any municipally operated health care facility, a sum not exceeding $15,000, to a deceased patient of such health care facility, upon whose estate there has been no qualification, such municipally operated health care facility, after sixty days from the death of such person, may pay such sum to his surviving spouse, and if none, then to the distributees of decedent under the laws of this Commonwealth, whose receipt therefor shall be a full discharge and acquittance to all persons whomsoever on account of such sum; provided, such sum, not exceeding the amount given priority by § 64.1-157, after thirty days from the death of such person, at the request of the surviving spouse, or if none, then the said distributees of such deceased person, may be paid in accordance with § 64.1-157 and a receipt of the payee shall be a full and final release of the payor.
(1979, c. 342; 1980, c. 462; 1996, c. 549; 2001, c. 368.)
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