Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 2. RECORDATION AND REGISTRATION OF DEEDS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS · Article 2. LAND REGISTRATION · Part 6. Assurance Fund

44-2-194. Action against fund — Parties defendant.

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

If an action contemplated by Code Section 44-2-193 is brought to recover for loss or damage arising only through the legal operation of this article, the state treasurer shall be the sole defendant. If the action is brought to recover for loss or damage arising on account of any registration made or procured through fraud, neglect, or wrongful act of any person not exercising a judicial function, both the state treasurer and such person or persons shall be made parties defendant.

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. 1917, p. 108, § 78; Code 1933, § 60-705; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 18; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, §§ 3, 4/SB 296.

Other notes

The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, substituted ‘‘state treasurer’’ for ‘‘director of the Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services’’ near the end of the first sentence, and substituted ‘‘state treasurer’’ for ‘‘director’’ near the end of the second sentence.

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

Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, pages 140 to 141; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.