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

7-1-167. Payment of mortgages and liens; protection of equities.

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

The department may, with leave of court, pay off all mortgages, security deeds, security agreements, and liens of or upon any real or personal property which belong to the financial institution. It may, without leave of court, purchase, at a judicial sale or at any sale authorized by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction, any real or personal property in order to protect any equity which the financial institution has in such real or personal property.

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

Ga. L. 1922, p. 63, § 1; Code 1933, § 13-808; Code 1933, § 41A-718, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1.

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