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Title 53. WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES · Chapter 12. TRUSTS · Article 17. GEORGIA PRINCIPAL AND INCOME ACT · Part 4. ALLOCATION OF RECEIPTS DURING ADMINISTRATION OF TRUST

53-12-422. Obligation to pay money.

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

  1. (a)

    An amount received as interest, whether determined at a fixed, variable, or floating rate, on an obligation to pay money to the trustee, including an amount received as consideration for prepaying principal, shall be allocated to income without any provision for amortization of premium.#

  2. (b)

    A trustee shall allocate to principal an amount received from the sale, redemption, or other disposition of an obligation to pay money to the trustee more than one year after it is purchased or acquired by the trustee, including an obligation whose purchase price or value when it is acquired is less than its value at maturity. If the obligation matures within one year after it is purchased or acquired by the trustee, an amount received in excess of its purchase price or its value when acquired by the trust shall be allocated to income.#

  3. (c)

    This Code section shall not apply to an obligation to which Code Section 53-12-425 through 53-12-428, 53-12-430, or 53-12-431 applies.#

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 1981, § 53-12-422, enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 579, § 1/SB 131.

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

Text read from t52-t53-(v40)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V40, 2021 edition, pages 947 to 948; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 062775612dfc.