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title: O.C.G.A. § 49-5-17. Power of department to accept and use gifts.
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# O.C.G.A. § 49-5-17. Power of department to accept and use gifts.

The department is authorized and empowered to receive, accept, hold, and use, on behalf of the state and for purposes provided for in this article, gifts, grants, donations, devises, and bequests of real, personal, and mixed property of every kind and description.

## History

Ga. L. 1963, p. 81, § 18.