Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO CORPORATIONS · Article 3. CORPORATIONS ORGANIZED FOR RELIGIOUS, FRATERNAL, OR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES

14-5-47. Authority of churches or religious societies over trustees holding land for their use.

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All trustees to whom conveyances are or shall be executed, for the purposes expressed in Code Section 14-5-46, shall be subject to the authority of the church or religious society for which they hold the same in trust and may be expelled from said trust by such church or society, according to the form of government or rules of discipline by which they may be governed.

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

Laws 1805, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 899; Code 1873, § 2344; Code 1882, § 2344; Civil Code 1895, § 2354; Civil Code 1910, § 2827; Code 1933, § 22-410; Code 1933, § 22-5508, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 565, § 1.

Editor's notes

In light of the similarity of the provisions, decisions under former Code 1933, § 22-410, are included in the annotations for this Code section.

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