Official Code of Georgia Annotated
Title 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 3. NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS · Article 14. DISSOLUTION · Part 4. ASSETS OF DISSOLVED CORPORATION
14-3-1440. Deposit of assets with Office of the State Treasurer.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Assets of a dissolved corporation that should be transferred to a creditor, claimant, or member of the corporation who cannot be found or who is not competent to receive them shall be reduced to cash and deposited with the Office of the State Treasurer for safekeeping. When the creditor, claimant, or member furnishes satisfactory proof of entitlement to the amount deposited, the Office of the State Treasurer shall pay him or her or his or her representative that amount. After the Office of the State Treasurer has held the unclaimed cash for six months, the Office of the State Treasurer shall pay such cash to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, to be held without liability for profit or interest until a claim for such cash shall be filed with the Office of the State Treasurer by the parties entitled thereto. No such claim shall be made more than six years after such cash is deposited with the Office of the State Treasurer.
History
Code 1981, § 14-3-1440, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 465, § 1; Ga. L. 2001, p. 796, § 6; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 2/SB 296; Ga. L. 2023, p. 419, § 1-1/SB 148, effective July 1, 2023.
Editor's notes
Ga. L. 2023, p. 419, § 1-1/SB 148, reenacted this Code section without change.
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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Text read from t14-(v12)-pdf.pdf, Volume V12, 2017 edition, 2025 supplement, page 199; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 b004123363dc.