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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 7. BANKING AND FINANCE · Chapter 1. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS · Article 7. BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS

7-1-790. Deposits of fiduciaries.

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

  1. A savings and loan association may receive deposits in the name of an administrator, executor, guardian, trustee, or other fiduciary in trust for a named or an unnamed beneficiary or beneficiaries. Such a deposit and dividends or interest thereon or other rights relating thereto may be paid or delivered, in whole or in part, to such fiduciary or may be exercised by such fiduciary without regard to any notice to the contrary so long as such fiduciary is living and until the association has received notice of the death of such fiduciary. The payment or delivery to any such fiduciary or a receipt or acquittance signed by any such fiduciary, to whom any such payment or any such delivery of rights is made, shall be a valid and sufficient release and discharge of such association for the payment or delivery so made.

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. 1937-38, Ex. Sess., p. 307, § 16; Code 1933, § 41A-3522, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1; Ga. L. 2016, p. 390, § 7-4/HB 811.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2016, “a” was deleted preceding “savings and loan association” in the first sentence.

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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, page 488; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 5c69f28428d8.