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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 3. ELECTRICAL SERVICE · Article 4. ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATIONS AND FOREIGN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES · Part 4. REGISTERED OFFICE, REGISTERED AGENTS, SERVICE OF PROCESS, AND VENUE

46-3-240. Registered office and registered agent.

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

  1. (a)

    Each electric membership corporation shall have and continuously maintain in this state:#

    1. (1)

      A registered office which may be, but need not be, the same as its place of business; and#

    2. (2)

      A registered agent, which agent may be:#

      1. (A)

        A natural person residing in this state whose business office is identical with such registered office; or#

      2. (B)

        A domestic corporation or a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state, such domestic or foreign corporation having a business office identical with such registered office.#

  2. (b)

    The Secretary of State shall maintain current records, alphabetically arranged by corporate name, of the address of each electric membership corporation’s registered office and of the name and address of each electric membership corporation’s registered agent.#

  3. (c)

    No registered agent shall be appointed without his or its prior written consent. Such written consent shall be filed with or as part of the document first appointing any registered agent and shall be in such form as the Secretary of State may prescribe.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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 1933, § 34C-401, enacted by Ga. L. 1981, p. 1587, § 1.

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

Text read from t46-(v34)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V34, 2025 edition, page 268; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 53ab60ae5027.