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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 7. BANKING AND FINANCE · Chapter 1. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS · Article 1. DEPARTMENT OF BANKING AND FINANCE AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS GENERALLY · Part 7. RECEIVERSHIP POWERS AND PROCEDURES GENERALLY

7-1-159. Suspension or continuation of business.

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

  1. The department is authorized, upon taking possession of the business and property of a financial institution as receiver, to continue or to suspend the business for such period as it may deem necessary to enable it to determine whether to surrender such possession to the financial institution, to authorize a merger or consolidation, to liquidate the affairs of such financial institution, or to take such other action as is authorized by law.

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, § 41A-710, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1.

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Text read from t7-t8-(v5)-2024-pdf.pdf, Volume V5, 2024 edition, page 103; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 5c69f28428d8.