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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 13. POWERS AND DUTIES OF FOREIGN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES TRANSACTING BUSINESS IN STATE GENERALLY

46-3-457. Designation of registered office and registered agent of foreign electric cooperative; maintenance by Secretary of State of offices and agents; consent to appointment as agent.

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

  1. (a)

    Each foreign electric cooperative authorized to transact business in this state 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 in this state; and#

    2. (2)

      A registered agent, which agent may be a natural person resident in this state whose business office is identical with such registered office, 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 foreign electric cooperative’s registered office and of the name and address of each foreign electric cooperative’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-1708, 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, pages 355 to 356; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 53ab60ae5027.