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 9. AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT OF ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATIONS

46-3-364. Time of effectiveness of amendment; effect of amendment on pending causes of action.

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

(a)
If the Secretary of State issues a certificate of amendment, the amendment shall become effective as of the time of delivery to the Secretary of State of the articles of amendment so certified; and the articles of incorporation shall be deemed to be amended accordingly.#
(b)
No amendment shall affect any existing cause of action in favor of or against such electric membership corporation, or any pending action to which such electric membership corporation is a party, or the existing rights of persons other than members; and, in the event the corporate name is changed by amendment, no action brought by or against such electric membership corporation under its former name shall abate for that reason.#

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-905, enacted by Ga. L. 1981, p. 1587, § 1.

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