Georgia CommonsTitle 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO CORPORATIONS · Article 2. CORPORATION COMMISSIONER
14-5-20. Secretary of State as corporation commissioner.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
The Secretary of State shall be corporation commissioner and shall be charged with the execution of the duties set forth in Chapters 2 through 5 of this title. The corporation commissioner shall appoint a person as assistant corporation commissioner and shall delegate such of the commissioner’s powers and duties to the assistant corporation commissioner as the corporation commissioner desires. Where the office of Secretary of State shall become vacant by resignation, death, or otherwise, the Secretary of State’s authority as corporation commissioner shall immediately vest in the assistant corporation commissioner who shall be charged with the execution of the duties of the Secretary of State set forth in this title until the office of Secretary of State ceases to be vacant.
History
Ga. L. 1906, p. 105, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 2208; Code 1933, § 22-1701; Code 1933, § 22-5201, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 565, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 623, § 19; Ga. L. 1986, p. 1454, § 8; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1231, § 35.
Cross references
Secretary of State generally, § 45-13-1 et seq.
Law reviews
For note on the 1993 amendment of this Code section, see 10 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 74 (1993).
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