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title: O.C.G.A. § 36-37-3. Municipal corporations as trustees for donated or gifted property generally.
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# O.C.G.A. § 36-37-3. Municipal corporations as trustees for donated or gifted property generally.

Municipal corporations may act as trustees under any conveyance or will donating or giving property for charitable or eleemosynary purposes.

## History

Ga. L. 1892, p. 104, § 2; Civil Code 1895, § 741; Civil Code 1910, § 888; Code 1933, § 69-502.