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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 3. NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS · Article 8. DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS · Part 5. INDEMNIFICATION

14-3-858. Insurance.

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

  1. A corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of an individual who is a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation or who, while a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, serves at the corporation’s request as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another domestic or foreign business or nonprofit corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan, or other entity against liability asserted against or incurred by the individual in that capacity or arising from the individual’s status as a director, officer, employee, or agent, whether or not the corporation would have power to indemnify or advance expenses to the individual against the same liability under this part.

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, § 14-3-857, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 465, § 1; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1165, § 14; Code 1981, § 14-3-858, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2023, p. 419, § 1-1/SB 148, effective July 1, 2023.

Amendments

The 2023 amendment, effective July 1, 2023, redesignated former Code Section 14-3-857 as present Code Section 14-3-858.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2023, p. 419, § 1-1/SB 148, redesignated former Code Section 14-3-858 as present Code Section 14-3-859.

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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 136; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 b004123363dc.