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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 6B. GEORGIA POWER OF ATTORNEY · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

10-6B-18. Resignation of agent.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. Unless the power of attorney provides a different method for an agent’s resignation, an agent may resign by giving notice to the principal and, if the principal is incapacitated:

  2. (1)

    To the conservator or guardian, if one has been appointed for the principal, and a coagent or successor agent; or#

  3. (2)

    If there is no person described in paragraph (1) of this Code section, to:#

    1. (A)

      The principal’s caregiver; or#

    2. (B)

      Another person reasonably believed by the agent to have sufficient interest in the principal’s welfare.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 10-6B-18, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 435, § 2-1/HB 221.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t10-(v8)-2024-pdf.pdf, Volume V8, 2024 edition, page 1100; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7afbade16da7.