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PUBLIC LAW 88-192-DEC. 5, 1963

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fails to appoint and maintain at all times in the District of Columbia such resident agent shall not, while such failure continues, be entitled to the exemption provided in this section. Whenever any such person or entity does not have in the District of Columbia an agent for service of process or such agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at his registered address, then the said Commissioners or their designee shall be the agent for the service of process for such person or entity. Service of process on the Commissioners or their designee shall be made by delivering to, and leaving with them, or with any person having charge of their office, or with their designee, duplicate copies of the process accompanied by a fee in the amount of $2.00 and such service shall be sufficient service upon such person or entity. In the event of such service, the Commissioners, or their designee, shall immediatelv cause one of such copies to be forwarded by registered or certified mail, addressed to such person or entity at his or its address, as such address appears on the records of the Commissioners or their designee. Any such service shall be returnable in not less than thirty days unless the rules of the court issuing such process prescribe another period, in which case such prescribed period shall govern. Toothing contained in this section shall limit or affect the right to serve any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on any such person or entity in any other manner now or hereafter permitted by law." Approved December 5, 1963. Public Law 88-192 AN ACT

December 5, 1963

To amend the Act of March 3, 1901, relating to devises and bequests by will.

[H. R. 3190]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That "An Act to D. C. "Pour establish a code of law for the District of Columbia, approved March °*''" *'"'^^*^3, 1901, as amended, is amended by adding the following new section ai Stat. 1433: after section 1628 thereof: 32 Stat. S45 D. C. Code 19"SEC. 1628a. (a) BEQUESTS OR DEVISES TO TRUSTEE UNDER, OR I N A C - 205. CORDANCE W I T H TERMS OF, EXISTING TRUSTS.—A devise or bequest may be made in a will or codicil, otherwise valid, in form or substance to the trustee or trustees under, or in accordance with the terms of, a written inter vivos trust (including an unfunded life insurance trust, although the settlor has reserved any or all rights of ownership in the insurance contracts) which has been executed and is in existence prior to or contemporaneously with the execution of such will or codicil and is identified in such will or codicil, without regard to the size or character of the corpus of such trust, or whether the settlor is the testator or a third person. "Such devise or bequest shall not be invalid because the trust is subject to amendment or modification or may be terminated or revoked after the will or codicil is executed (whether by the settlor or any other person or persons), nor because the trust instrument or any amendment thereto was not executed in the manner required by law for wills or codicils.

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