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Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 6B. GEORGIA POWER OF ATTORNEY · Article 3. STATUTORY FORMS

10-6B-71. Optional form for agent certification of facts.

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

  1. The following optional form may be used by an agent to certify facts concerning a power of attorney.

  2. ‘‘AGENT’S CERTIFICATION AS TO THE VALIDITY OF

  3. POWER OF ATTORNEY AND AGENT’S AUTHORITY

  4. State of Georgia

  5. County of

  6. I, (name of agent), certify under penalty of perjury that (name of principal) granted me authority as an agent or successor agent in a power of attorney dated .

  7. I further certify that to my knowledge:

  8. (1)

    The principal is alive and has not revoked the power of attorney or my authority to act under the power of attorney and the power of attorney and my authority to act under the power of attorney have not terminated;#

  9. (2)

    If the power of attorney was drafted to become effective upon the happening of an event or contingency, the event or contingency has occurred;#

  10. (3)

    If I were named as a successor agent, the prior agent is no longer able or willing to serve; and#

  11. (4)
    1. (Insert other relevant statements)

    2. SIGNATURE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

    3. Agent’s signature Date

    4. Agent’s name printed

    5. Agent’s address

    6. Agent’s telephone number

    7. Agent’s email address

    8. This document was signed in my presence on , by

    9. (Date)

    10. (Name of agent)

    11. (Seal)

    12. Signature of notary

    13. My commission expires:

    14. This document prepared by: .

Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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-71, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 435, § 2-1/HB 221; Ga. L. 2018, p. 520, § 20/HB 897; Ga. L. 2024, p. 1052, § 2(57)/SB 448, effective July 1, 2024.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “email” for “e-mail” in this Code section.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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, pages 1130 to 1131; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7afbade16da7.