Section 43-2-231
Appointment of personal representative.
It shall be lawful for the respective probate courts of this state to appoint a personal representative of the estates of persons who are presumed to be dead on account of absence for five or more years from the place of their last domicile within this state as provided in this article.
(Acts 1939, No. 46, p. 53; Code 1940, T. 61, §156; Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §8-102; Acts 1984, No. 84-258, p. 426, §1.)