Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 7. BANKING AND FINANCE · Chapter 1. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS · Article 2. BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES · Part 8. INCORPORATION OF BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES

7-1-395. Issuance of certificate of incorporation.

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

If the Secretary of State shall receive, with respect to the proposed bank or trust company:
(1)
The written approval of the department with a copy of the articles of incorporation attached;#
(2)
An affidavit executed by the duly authorized agent or publisher of the newspaper in which publication of the articles or a summary statement relating thereto is required by Code Sections 7-1-7 and 7-1-392 stating that the articles or the summary statement have been published as required by those Code sections;#
(3)
All fees and charges required by law and if, in addition, the name of the proposed bank or trust company continues to be reserved or is available,#
the Secretary of State shall immediately issue to the incorporators a certificate of incorporation. The Secretary of State shall retain on file in his office a copy of the certificate, the articles, the department’s approval, and the publisher’s certificate.

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. 1898, p. 78, § 2; Civil Code 1910, § 2816; Ga. L. 1919, p. 135, art. 8, §§ 6, 7; Code 1933, §§ 13-906, 13-907, 109-102; Ga. L. 1952, p. 193, § 1; Ga. L. 1966, p. 692, §§ 12, 13; Code 1933, § 41A-1806, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1257, § 7.

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