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VA Code § 13.1-1244 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1244. Name

A. No certificate of registration shall be issued to a foreign business trust unless the name of such foreign business trust satisfies the requirements of § 13.1-1214.B. If the name of a foreign business trust does not satisfy the requirements of § 13.1-1214, to obtain or maintain a certificate of registration to transact business in the Commonwealth, the foreign business trust may use a designated name that is available, and which satisfies the requirements of § 13.1-1214, if it informs the Commission of the designated name.2002, c. 621; 2012, c. 63.
VA Code § 13.1-1245 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1245. Amendments; amended applications for registration

A. Whenever the articles of trust or other constituent document of a foreign business trust that is registered to transact business in the Commonwealth is amended or corrected, the foreign business trust shall promptly file with the Commission a copy of the amendment or correction duly authenticated by the Secretary of State or other official having custody of the business trust records in the state or other jurisdiction of its formation.B. If any statement in the application for registration of a foreign business trust was false when made or any arrangements or other facts described have changed, making the application inaccurate in any respect, the foreign business trust shall promptly file with the Commission an amended application for registration amending such statement or information. The amended application for registration shall be made on a form prescribed and furnished by the Commission.2002, c. 621; 2008, c. 101.
VA Code § 13.1-1246.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1246.1. Automatic cancellation of registration

A. Whether or not the notice described in subsection B of § 13.1-1254 is mailed, if any foreign business trust fails to pay its annual registration fee on or before December 31 of the year assessed, such foreign business trust shall automatically cease to be authorized to transact business in the Commonwealth and its certificate of registration shall be automatically canceled as of that day.B. If any foreign business trust whose registered agent has filed with the Commission a statement of resignation pursuant to § 13.1-1222 fails to file a statement of change pursuant to § 13.1-1221 within 31 days after the date on which the statement of resignation was filed, the Commission shall mail notice to the foreign business trust of the impending cancellation of its certificate of registration. If the business trust fails to file the statement of change before the last day of the second month immediately following the month in which the impending cancellation notice was mailed, the business trust shall automatically cease to be authorized to transact business in the Commonwealth and its certificate of registration shall be automatically canceled as of that day.C. The automatic cancellation of a foreign business trust's certificate of registration constitutes the appointment of the clerk of the Commission as the foreign business trust's agent for service of process in any proceeding based on a cause of action arising during the time the foreign business trust was registered to transact business in the Commonwealth. Service of process on the clerk of the Commission under this subsection is service on the foreign business trust and shall be made on the clerk in accordance with § 12.1-19.1.D. Cancellation of a foreign business trust's certificate of registration does not terminate the authority of the registered agent of the foreign business trust.2008, c. 101; 2013, c. 25.
VA Code § 13.1-1246.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1246.2. Involuntary cancellation of registration

A. The certificate of registration to transact business in the Commonwealth of any foreign business trust may be canceled involuntarily by order of the Commission when it finds that the foreign business trust:1. Has continued to exceed or abuse the authority conferred upon it by law;2. Has failed to maintain a registered office or a registered agent in the Commonwealth as required by law;3. Has failed to file any document required by this chapter to be filed with the Commission;4. No longer exists under the laws of the state or other jurisdiction of its formation; or5. Has been convicted for a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324a (f), as amended, for actions of its trustees or beneficial owners authorized to act on the behalf of a foreign business trust constituting a pattern or practice of employing unauthorized aliens in the Commonwealth.B. Before entering any such order, the Commission shall issue a rule against the foreign business trust giving it an opportunity to be heard and show cause why such an order should not be entered. The Commission may issue the rule on its own motion or on motion of the Attorney General.C. The authority of a foreign business trust to transact business in the Commonwealth ceases on the date shown on the order canceling its certificate of registration.D. The Commission's cancellation of a foreign business trust's certificate of registration appoints the clerk of the Commission the foreign business trust's agent for service of process in any proceeding based on a cause of action arising during the time the foreign business trust was authorized to transact business in the Commonwealth. Service of process on the clerk of the Commission under this subsection is service on the foreign business trust and shall be made on the clerk in accordance with § 12.1-19.1.E. Cancellation of a foreign business trust's certificate of registration does not terminate the authority of the registered agent of the foreign business trust.F. Any foreign business trust convicted of the offense listed in subdivision A 5 shall immediately report such conviction to the Commission and file with the Commission an authenticated copy of the judgment or record of conviction. A certificate of registration canceled pursuant to subdivision A 5 shall not be eligible for reinstatement for a period of not less than one year.2008, c. 101; 2009, c. 167.
VA Code § 13.1-1246.3 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1246.3. Reinstatement of a certificate of registration that has been canceled

A. A foreign business trust whose certificate of registration to transact business in the Commonwealth has been canceled may be relieved of the cancellation and have its certificate of registration reinstated by the Commission within five years of the date of cancellation unless the certificate of registration was canceled by order of the Commission entered pursuant to subdivision A 1 of § 13.1-1246.2.B. To have its certificate of registration reinstated, a foreign business trust shall provide the Commission with the following:1. An application for reinstatement, which may be in the form of a letter, that includes the identification number issued by the Commission to the business trust;2. A reinstatement fee of $100;3. All annual registration fees and penalties that were due before the certificate of registration was canceled and that would have been assessed or imposed to the date of reinstatement if the business trust had not had its certificate of registration canceled;4. A duly authenticated copy of any amendments or corrections made to the articles of trust or other constituent documents of the foreign business trust and any mergers entered into by the foreign business trust from the date of cancellation of its certificate of registration to the date of its application for reinstatement, with an amended application for registration if required for an amendment or a correction, and all fees required by this chapter for the filing of such instruments;5. If the name of the foreign business trust does not comply with the provisions of § 13.1-1214 at the time of reinstatement, an amended application for registration to adopt a designated name for use in the Commonwealth that satisfies the requirements of § 13.1-1214, along with the fee required by this chapter for the filing of an amended application for registration; and6. If the foreign business trust's registered agent has filed a statement of resignation and a new registered agent has not been appointed, a statement of change pursuant to § 13.1-1221.C. If the foreign business trust complies with the provisions of this section, the Commission shall enter an order of reinstatement, reinstating the foreign business trust's certificate of registration to transact business in the Commonwealth.2008, c. 101; 2013, c. 25.
VA Code § 13.1-1247 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1247. Transaction of business without registration; civil penalty

A. A foreign business trust transacting business in the Commonwealth shall not maintain any action, suit, or proceeding in any court of the Commonwealth until it has registered in the Commonwealth.B. The successor to a foreign business trust that transacted business in the Commonwealth without registering in the Commonwealth and the assignee of a cause of action arising out of that business may not maintain a proceeding based on that cause of action in any court in the Commonwealth until the foreign business trust or its successor has registered in the Commonwealth.C. The failure of a foreign business trust to register in the Commonwealth shall not impair the validity of any contract or act of the foreign business trust or prevent the foreign business trust from defending any action, suit, or proceeding in any court of the Commonwealth.D. If a foreign business trust transacts business in the Commonwealth without a certificate of registration, each trustee, officer or employee of the business trust who does any such business in the Commonwealth knowing that a certificate of authority is required and has not been obtained shall be liable for a civil penalty of not less than $500 and not more than $5,000, which may be imposed by the Commission or by any court in the Commonwealth before which an action against the business trust may lie, after the business trust and the individual have been given notice and an opportunity to be heard. Civil penalties paid pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited to the credit of the Literary Fund.E. Suits, actions, and proceedings may be initiated against a foreign business trust that transacts business in the Commonwealth without a certificate of registration by serving process on any trustee, officer, or agent of the business trust doing such business, or, if none can be found, on the clerk of the Commission or on the business trust in any other manner permitted by law. If any foreign business trust transacts business in the Commonwealth without a certificate of registration, it shall by transacting such business be deemed to have thereby appointed the clerk of the Commission its agent for service of process. Service upon the clerk shall be made in accordance with § 12.1-19.1.2002, c. 621; 2008, c. 523; 2013, c. 25.
VA Code § 13.1-1248 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1248. Actions by Attorney General

The Attorney General may bring an action to restrain a foreign business trust from transacting business in this Commonwealth in violation of this article.2002, c. 621.
VA Code § 13.1-1249 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1249. Transactions not constituting doing business

A. The following activities of a foreign business trust, among others, do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of this article:1. Maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding;2. Holding meetings of its beneficial owners or carrying on any other activities concerning its internal affairs;3. Maintaining bank accounts;4. Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange and registration of the foreign business trust's securities or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities;5. Selling through independent contractors;6. Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this Commonwealth before they become contracts;7. Creating or acquiring indebtedness, deeds of trust, and security interests in real or personal property;8. Securing or collecting debts or enforcing deeds of trust and security interests in property securing the debts;9. Owning, without more, real or personal property;10. Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within 30 days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature;11. For a period of less than 90 consecutive days, producing, directing, filming, crewing or acting in motion picture feature films, television series or commercials, or promotional films that are sent outside of the Commonwealth for processing, editing, marketing and distribution; or12. Serving, without more, as a general partner of, or as a partner in a partnership that is a general partner of, a domestic or foreign limited partnership that does not otherwise transact business in the Commonwealth.B. The term "transacting business" as used in this section shall have no effect on personal jurisdiction under § 8.01-328.1.C. The list of activities in subsection A is not exhaustive. This section does not apply in determining the contacts or activities that may subject a foreign business trust to service of process or taxation in this Commonwealth or to regulation under any other law of this Commonwealth.2002, c. 621; 2013, c. 25.
VA Code § 13.1-1250.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1250.1. Entity conversion of foreign business trust registered to transact business in Commonwealth

A. Whenever a foreign business trust that is registered to transact business in the Commonwealth converts to another type of entity, the surviving or resulting entity shall, within 30 days after such entity conversion becomes effective, file with the Commission a copy of the instrument of entity conversion duly authenticated by the Secretary of State or other official having custody of business trust records in the state or other jurisdiction under whose laws such entity conversion was effected; and1. If the surviving or resulting entity is not continuing to transact business in the Commonwealth or is not a foreign corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, or registered limited liability partnership, then, within 30 days after such entity conversion, it shall comply on behalf of the predecessor business trust with the provisions of § 13.1-1246; or2. If the surviving or resulting entity is a foreign corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, or registered limited liability partnership and is to continue to transact business in the Commonwealth, then, within such 30 days, it shall deliver to the Commission an application for a certificate of authority or registration to transact business in the Commonwealth or, in the case of a foreign registered limited liability partnership, a statement of registration.B. Upon the entity conversion of a foreign business trust that is registered to transact business in the Commonwealth, all property in the Commonwealth owned by the foreign business trust shall pass to the surviving or resulting entity except as otherwise provided by the laws of the state or other jurisdiction by which it is governed, but only from and after the time when a duly authenticated copy of the instrument of entity conversion is filed with the Commission.2004, c. 274.
VA Code § 13.1-1251 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1251. Annual registration fees to be assessed and collected by Commission; application of payment

The Commission shall assess and collect the annual registration fees imposed by this chapter. When the Commission receives payment of a registration fee assessed against a domestic or foreign business trust, such payment shall be applied against any unpaid registration fees previously assessed against such business trust, including any penalties incurred thereon, beginning with the assessment that has remained unpaid for the longest period of time.2002, c. 621.
VA Code § 13.1-1254 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1254. Penalty for failure to timely pay annual registration fees or file statement of change

A. Any domestic or any foreign business trust that fails to pay the annual registration fee into the state treasury within the time prescribed in § 13.1-1252 shall incur a penalty of $25, which shall be added to the amount of the annual registration fee due. The penalty prescribed herein shall be in addition to any other penalty or liability imposed by law.B. The Commission shall mail to each domestic and foreign business trust that fails to pay its annual registration fee within the time prescribed in § 13.1-1252 a notice of assessment of the penalty imposed herein and of the impending cancellation of its existence or certificate of registration, as the case may be.2002, c. 621; 2003, c. 373; 2004, cc. 274, 601; 2008, c. 101.
VA Code § 13.1-1255 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1255. Payment of fees, fines, penalties, and interest prerequisite to Commission action; refunds

A. The Commission shall not file or issue with respect to any domestic or foreign business trust any document or certificate specified in this chapter, except a statement of change pursuant to § 13.1-1221 and a statement of resignation pursuant to § 13.1-1222, until all fees, fines, penalties, and interest assessed, imposed, charged, or to be collected by the Commission pursuant to this chapter or Title 12.1 have been paid by or on behalf of such business trust. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Commission may file or issue any document or certificate with respect to a domestic or foreign business trust that has been assessed an annual registration fee if the document or certificate is filed or issued with an effective date that is on or before the due date of the business trust's annual registration fee payment in any year, provided that the Commission shall not issue a certificate of domestication with respect to a foreign business trust or a certificate of entity conversion with respect to a domestic business trust that will become a domestic stock corporation or limited liability company until the annual registration fee has been paid by or on behalf of that business trust.B. The Commission shall have the authority to certify to the Comptroller directing refund of any overpayment of a fee, or of any fee collected for a document that is not accepted for filing, at any time within one year from the date of its payment.2002, c. 621; 2004, c. 316; 2006, c. 659; 2007, c. 810; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 487.
VA Code § 13.1-1256 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1256. Collection by suit and of unpaid bills

The provisions of §§ 13.1-775.1 and 58.1-2814, so far as they are applicable, shall apply to the annual registration fees and penalties imposed by this chapter.2002, c. 621.
VA Code § 13.1-1257 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1257. Authorization for merger

Unless the governing instrument provides otherwise, a domestic business trust may merge with or into one or more business trusts or other business entities formed or organized or existing under the laws of Virginia or any other state or the United States or any foreign country or other foreign jurisdiction.2002, c. 621.
VA Code § 13.1-1258 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1258. Approval

A. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of trust or the governing instrument of a business trust, a merger shall be approved by each business trust that is to merge by the affirmative vote of the trustees and the holders of two-thirds of the outstanding beneficial interests of such business trust.B. A merger need be approved only by the trustees of a successor business trust if:1. The merger does not reclassify or change its outstanding beneficial interests or otherwise amend its articles of trust or governing instrument; and2. The beneficial interests to be issued or delivered in the merger are not more than twenty percent of the beneficial interests of the same class or series outstanding immediately before the merger becomes effective.C. The merger shall be approved by any other business entity party to the merger in the manner required by the articles of incorporation or charter, declaration of trust, partnership agreement, or other organizational document of the other business entity and the laws of the jurisdiction where the other business entity is organized.2002, c. 621.
VA Code § 13.1-1259 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1259. Exchange of securities; termination or amendment of merger

In connection with a merger, rights or securities of, or interests in, a business trust or other business entity that is a constituent party to the merger may be exchanged for or converted into cash, property, rights, or securities of, or interests in, the successor business trust or any other business entity, whether or not a party to the transaction. Notwithstanding prior approval, an agreement of merger may be terminated or amended under a provision for the termination or amendment contained in the agreement of merger.2002, c. 621.
VA Code § 13.1-1262 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 13.1 - Corporations|Chapter 14 - Virginia Business Trust Act|§ 13.1-1262. Governing instrument

A. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the governing instrument of a business trust, a governing instrument of a business trust containing a specific reference to this section may provide that an agreement of merger approved in accordance with this article may:1. Effect any amendment to the governing instrument of the business trust; or2. Effect the adoption of a new governing instrument of the business trust if it is the successor trust in the merger.B. 1. Any amendment to the governing instrument of a business trust or adoption of a new governing instrument of the business trust made under this section shall be effective at the effective time or date of the merger.2. The provisions of this subsection shall not be construed to limit the accomplishment of a merger or of any of the matters referred to herein by any other means provided for in the governing instrument of a business trust or other agreement or as otherwise permitted by law, including that the governing instrument of any constituent business trust to the merger shall be the governing instrument of the successor trust.2002, c. 621.