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title: O.C.G.A. § 44-12-200. When unclaimed court ordered refund from business association presumed abandoned.
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# O.C.G.A. § 44-12-200. When unclaimed court ordered refund from business association presumed abandoned.

Except to the extent otherwise ordered by a court or administrative agency of competent jurisdiction, any sum that a business association has been ordered to refund by a court or administrative agency which has remained unclaimed by the owner for more than five years after it became payable in accordance with the final determination or order providing for the refund, regardless of whether the final determination or order requires any person entitled to a refund to make a claim for it, is presumed abandoned.

## History

Code 1981, § 44-12-200, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 1506, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 1237, § 6.