§ 3-501. Effect of death upon power of attorney given by persons\nengaged in certain occupations.
1.No agency created by a power of\nattorney in writing given by a principal who is at the time of\nexecution, or who, after executing such power of attorney, becomes,\neither\n a. a person serving in the armed forces of the United States, or\n b. a person serving as a merchant seaman outside the continental\nlimits of the United States; or\n c. a person outside such continental limits by permission, assignment\nor direction of any department or official of the United States\ngovernment, in connection with any activity pertaining to or connected\nwith the prosecution of any war or any campaign of a military nature in\nwhich the armed forces of the United States are participating or have\n
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§ 3-501. Effect of death upon power of attorney given by persons\nengaged in certain occupations. 1. No agency created by a power of\nattorney in writing given by a principal who is at the time of\nexecution, or who, after executing such power of attorney, becomes,\neither\n a. a person serving in the armed forces of the United States, or\n b. a person serving as a merchant seaman outside the continental\nlimits of the United States; or\n c. a person outside such continental limits by permission, assignment\nor direction of any department or official of the United States\ngovernment, in connection with any activity pertaining to or connected\nwith the prosecution of any war or any campaign of a military nature in\nwhich the armed forces of the United States are participating or have\nbeen ordered to participate;\nshall be revoked or terminated by the death of the principal as to the\nattorney-in-fact, agent or other person who, without actual knowledge or\nactual notice of the death of the principal shall have acted or shall\nact, in good faith, under or in reliance upon such power of attorney or\nagency, and any action so taken, unless otherwise invalid or\nunenforceable, shall be binding on the heirs, devisees, legatees or\npersonal representatives of the principal.\n 2. An affidavit, executed by the attorney-in-fact or agent, setting\nforth that he has not or had not, at the time of doing any act pursuant\nto the power of attorney, received actual knowledge or actual notice of\nrevocation or termination of the power of attorney, by death or\notherwise, or notice of any facts indicating the same, shall, in the\nabsence of fraud, be conclusive proof of the nonrevocation or\nnontermination of the power at such time. If the exercise of the power\nrequires execution and delivery of any instrument which is recordable\nunder the laws of this state, such affidavit when authenticated for\nrecord in the manner prescribed by law shall likewise be recordable.\n 3. No report or listing, either official or otherwise, of "missing" or\n"missing in action", as such words are used in military parlance, shall\nconstitute or be interpreted as constituting actual knowledge or actual\nnotice of the death of such principal or notice of any facts indicating\nthe same, or shall operate to revoke the agency.\n 4. This section shall not be construed so as to alter or affect any\nprovision for revocation or termination contained in such power of\nattorney.\n 5. If any provision of this section or the application thereof to any\nperson or circumstance be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect\nany other provision or application of the section which can be given\neffect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the\nprovisions of this section are declared to be severable.\n