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Section 9 Persons entitled to continue administration

[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 13. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

Section 9. If a sole or surviving executor or administrator dies, resigns or is removed before having fully administered an estate, and there is personal property of the deceased not administered to the amount of twenty dollars, or debts to that amount remaining due from the estate, or anything remaining to be performed in execution of the will, or if there is an order of distribution in accordance with section twenty-eight of chapter two hundred and six, the probate court shall grant letters of administration, with the will annexed, or otherwise as the case may require, to one or more suitable persons, who are not under indictment for, or have not been convicted of, murder in the first or second degree, or manslaughter, or accessory before the fact of such crimes, against the deceased, to administer the goods and estate of the deceased not already administered. If it appears that there are no known heirs of the deceased, a public administrator of the county shall be appointed to the trust.

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