Volume 67
Public Law 83–72
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, as further amended by an Act of April 19, 1920 (title 20, ch. 1, sec. 116, D. C. Code, 1951), relating to continuing decedent’s business.
Approved June 18, 1953
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, as further amended by an Act of April 19, 1920 (title 20, ch. 1, sec. 116, D. C. Code, 1951), relating to continuing decedent’s business.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act of April 19, 1920 (41 Stat. 556, ch. 153, sec. 123a), amending the Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901 (title 20, ch. 1, sec. 116, D. C. Code, 1951), is amended by striking out the first sentence thereof, and in lieu thereof inserting the following: “The probate court may, in its discretion, authorize any fiduciary accountable to it to continue any business of the decedent for a period of twelve months after decedent’s death: Provided, That, upon good cause shown, the probate court may, in its discretion, extend the said period.”
Approved June 18, 1953.