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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 14. CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS · Chapter 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO CORPORATIONS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

14-5-9. Jurisdiction and service of summons in garnishment proceedings.

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

  1. The court in which is pending an action, attachment, or judgment upon which is sought garnishment against a corporation shall also have jurisdiction of the garnishment proceeding where the corporation has an agent and place of business in the county in which the court is situated. Service of the summons of garnishment upon the agent in charge of the office or business of the corporation in that county shall be sufficient service.

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

Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 99, § 2; Civil Code 1895, § 1900; Civil Code 1910, § 2259; Code 1933, § 22-1102; Code 1933, § 22-5302, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 565, § 1.

Law reviews

For note discussing problems with venue in Georgia, and proposing statutory revisions to improve the resolution of venue questions, see 9 Ga. St. B. J. 254 (1972).

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