49-22 - Sureties on official bonds. - Virginia Statutes

§ 49-22. Sureties on official bonds.

When the surety, or his committee or personal representative, of any officer,or commissioner or receiver under decree of a court, required to give bondshall petition the court by which the bond is taken, or in which, or in theclerk's office of which, it is recorded, or the circuit court of the countyor city, in which, where the bond of such officer is not taken by or filed inany court or clerk's office, the officer resides, to be relieved from thesuretyship, such court shall, on proof of reasonable notice of his intendedmotion, require such officer, commissioner or receiver to give a new bond inthe same manner as if none had been given by him. The surety in any bondrequired to be approved by the Governor shall file his petition in theCircuit Court of the City of Richmond, and the surety in the bond of anyclerk of the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals shall file his petition inthe court for which his principal is the clerk.

(Code 1919, § 5771; 1984, c. 703.)