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Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 6B. GEORGIA POWER OF ATTORNEY · Article 4. OTHER STATUTORY PROVISIONS

10-6B-81. Application of Chapter 6B.

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

  1. (a)

    This Code section and Code Section 10-6B-19 shall apply retroactively to powers of attorney created before July 1, 2018. The remainder of this chapter shall not apply to a power of attorney executed before July 1, 2017.#

  2. (b)

    When this chapter applies to a power of attorney pursuant to Code Section 10-6B-3, Chapter 6 of this title shall not apply to such power of attorney.#

  3. (c)

    When, other than this Code section and Code Section 10-6B-19, this chapter does not apply to a power of attorney:#

    1. (1)

      It shall not affect the application of Chapter 6 of this title; and#

    2. (2)

      The former provisions of Article 7 of Chapter 6 of this title, as such existed on June 30, 2017, shall remain applicable.#

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-81, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 435, § 2-1/HB 221; Ga. L. 2018, p. 520, § 21/HB 897; Ga. L. 2025, p. 806, § 8/HB 327, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, inserted “This Code section and” at the beginning of subsection (a); in subsection (b), substituted “When this chapter” for “When Code Section 10-6B-3” and inserted “pursuant to Code Section 10-6B-3”; and inserted “this Code section and” near the beginning of subsection (c).

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

Text read from t10-(v8)-pdf.pdf, Volume V8, 2024 edition, 2025 supplement, page 98; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 f1fc4f45d8c6.