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Title 7. BANKING AND FINANCE · Chapter 1. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS · Article 2. BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES · Part 6. DEPOSITS, SAFE-DEPOSIT AGREEMENTS, AND MONEY RECEIVED FOR TRANSMISSION

7-1-352. Deposit by agent, trustee, or other fiduciary.

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

  1. (a)

    Whenever any agent, administrator, executor, guardian, trustee, either express or implied, or other fiduciary, whether bona fide or mala fide, shall deposit any money in any bank to his credit as an individual, or as such agent, trustee, or other fiduciary, whether the name of the person or corporation for whom he is acting or purporting to act be given or not, such bank shall be authorized to pay the amount of such deposit, or any part thereof, upon the order of such agent, administrator, executor, guardian, trustee, or other fiduciary, signed with the name in which such deposit was entered, without being accountable in any way to the principal, cestui que trust, or other person or corporation who may be entitled to or interested in the amount so deposited.#

  2. (b)

    Nothing contained in this Code section shall prevent the person or corporation claiming the beneficial interest in or to any deposit in any bank from resorting to the courts to claim such deposit, provided that such action is brought and served before such deposit is paid out and in accordance with the requirements of Code Section 7-1-353.#

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. 1919, p. 135, art. 19, § 42; Code 1933, § 13-2042; Code 1933, § 41A-1605, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1; Ga. L. 2024, p. 1052, § 1(a)(16)/SB 448, effective July 1, 2024.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “provided that such” for “provided such” in subsection (b).

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

Text read from t7-t8-(v5)-2024-pdf.pdf, Volume V5, 2024 edition, pages 208 to 209; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 5c69f28428d8.