Code of Virginia
Chapter 2 - Church Property; Benevolent Associations and Objects
§ 57-15.1. Order may provide that fiscal officer may sign instrument without personal liability

Any order entered pursuant to §§ 57-14 and 57-15 may provide that any instrument evidencing a debt secured by a deed of trust or mortgage made in behalf of a church diocese, congregation, church or religious denomination or society or branch or division thereof, hereinafter referred to inclusively as "church," may be signed without personal liability by the treasurer or other fiscal officer of such church and thereupon become the obligation solely of the church named therein.
To carry out any order entered pursuant to §§ 57-14 and 57-15, the judge may appoint a special commissioner to convey or encumber any real estate held for the benefit of any church in connection with any transaction involving any conveyance or debt in the name of the church.
Any such instrument when recorded shall be indexed in the name of the church as grantor.
1966, c. 149.

Structure Code of Virginia

Code of Virginia

Title 57 - Religious and Charitable Matters; Cemeteries

Chapter 2 - Church Property; Benevolent Associations and Objects

§ 57-3. Appropriation of glebe lands and church property

§ 57-4. Donations to vestries for charitable purposes

§ 57-5. R. E. Lee Camp; Pelham Chapel

§ 57-6. Lee Memorial Association

§ 57-6.1. Validity of literary, educational, and charitable gifts, grants, devises, or bequests

§ 57-7. Repealed

§ 57-7.1. What transfers for religious purposes valid

§ 57-8. Appointment of trustees to effect the purposes of conveyances, etc.; validation of certain appointments

§ 57-9. How property rights determined on division of church or society

§ 57-10. How trustees to hold personal property

§ 57-11. Suits by and against trustees

§ 57-12. Repealed

§ 57-13. Suits by members against trustees to compel proper application of property

§ 57-14. Suits by members to have land sold or mortgaged

§ 57-15. Proceedings by trustees or members for similar purposes, exception for certain transfers

§ 57-15.1. Order may provide that fiscal officer may sign instrument without personal liability

§ 57-16. Property held, etc., by ecclesiastical officers

§ 57-16.1. Property of unincorporated church held by corporation

§ 57-17. Conveyance of church land held in adverse possession

§ 57-18. Conveyance for charitable purpose to unincorporated bodies or societies

§ 57-19. Conveyances of land to benevolent and other associations to be subject to certain sections

§ 57-20. Quantity of land benevolent and other associations may hold

§ 57-21. May hold personal property through trustees