---
title: O.C.G.A. § 44-12-210. Commencement of abandonment for certain property described in Code Section 44-12-197.
collection: code
id: 44-12-210
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 44-12-210 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-12-210
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-12-210.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-12-210/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t44-ch8-15-(v32)-2022-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=9e9e06de_0#page=295
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-12.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-12-209.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/44-12-211.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: PROPERTY / RIGHTS IN PERSONALTY / DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY
---

# O.C.G.A. § 44-12-210. Commencement of abandonment for certain property described in Code Section 44-12-197.

The abandonment period of any property described in Code Section 44-12-197 that is automatically renewable shall commence upon the expiration of its initial time period except that, in the case of any renewal to which the owner consents at or about the time of renewal by communicating in writing with the person holding the property or otherwise indicating such consent as evidenced by a memorandum on file prepared by an employee, the abandonment period shall commence upon the expiration of the last time period for which consent was given.

## History

Code 1981, § 44-12-210, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 1506, § 1.