Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 12. RIGHTS IN PERSONALTY · Article 5. DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY

44-12-206. When unpaid wages presumed abandoned.

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Unpaid wages, including wages represented by unpresented payroll checks owing in the ordinary course of the holder’s business, that have remained unclaimed by the owner for more than one year after becoming payable are presumed abandoned.

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

Code 1981, § 44-12-206, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 1506, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 1237, § 12.

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