West Virginia Code § 31A-6-1

Procedures for nominee registration of securities
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Any bank, nonbanking subsidiary of a bank holding company, nonbanking subsidiary of a
banking institution, or entity jointly owned by federally insured depository institutions
authorized to exercise trust powers under section fourteen, article four of this chapter,
which holds in a fiduciary capacity any stock, bond, debenture, note, warrant, certificate or
other security evidencing ownership or interest, either whole or fractional, ien fully paid and
nonassessable intangible personal property, may cause the security or evidence of
ownership, to be registered and held in the name of a nominee or nomirnees of the trust
institution, or in its own name, without disclosing the fiduciary relationship, but, where the
trust institution is acting jointly with some other individual or individuals, it must first secure
the written consent of the individual fiduciary or fiduciaries thereto, which consent the
individual fiduciary or fiduciaries are hereby authorized to gtive.
The placing of property in the name of a nominee, nominees or in the name of the trust
institution, without disclosure of the fiduciary capacity, shall be deemed to be nominee
registration under this article and every such registration shall ipso facto constitute a
declaration of trust upon the part of the registsered owner so far as the fiduciary and the
beneficiaries of the fiduciary status are concerned.
For purposes of this article, the termg "trust institution" means a bank, nonbanking subsidiary
of a bank holding company, nonbanking subsidiary of a banking institution or entity jointly
owned by federally insured deepository institutions authorized to exercise trust powers under
section fourteen, article four of this chapter.

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