§ 64.1-124. Payment to consort or to court of small sum of deceased inmate of state mental institutio...
When a person for whom no committee or trustee has been appointed is committed to a mental institution supported by the Commonwealth and dies therein and there is in the hands of the superintendent of such institution a sum not exceeding $15,000, the property of such deceased person, and there has been no qualification upon the estate of such deceased person within sixty days following the death of such person, then such superintendent may pay such sum to the surviving consort, if any, and if none, then to the next of kin of the decedent whose receipt therefor shall be a full discharge and acquittance to the superintendent on account of such sums, and if none such then to the court having jurisdiction over the appointment of the personal representative of the decedent who may distribute the same in accordance with § 8.01-606.
(Code 1950, § 64-119.1; 1954, c. 464; 1966, c. 520; 1968, c. 656; 1970, c. 244; 1980, c. 462; 1996, c. 549; 2001, c. 368.)
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