§44-11-1 Transfer of securities of nonresident decedent. - West Virginia Statutes

§44-11-1. Transfer of securities of nonresident decedent.
Any bonds or other securities issued by this state or any political subdivision or municipality thereof, or any stocks, bonds or other securities issued by any corporation created by this state, or by any national banking association having its principal office in this state, standing in the name of a decedent, domiciled at the time of his death out of this state, and who is not known, by the officer or agent charged with the duty of transferring such stocks, bonds, or other securities, to have a personal representative qualified as such within this state, may be transferred by the executor or administrator of such decedent qualified according to the laws of the domicile, when affidavit shall have been filed as prescribed in the next section.