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title: O.C.G.A. § 7-1-793. Investment of funds in insured deposits.
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# O.C.G.A. § 7-1-793. Investment of funds in insured deposits.

Administrators, executors, guardians, trustees, and other fiduciaries of every kind and nature; insurance companies; charitable, educational, eleemosynary, and public corporations and organizations; municipalities and other public corporations and bodies; and public officials are authorized to invest funds held by them, without any order of any court, in deposits in savings and loan associations which are insured under a federal deposit insurance program; and, to the extent of such insurance, such investments shall be deemed and held to be legal investments for such funds.

## History

Ga. L. 1937-38, Ex. Sess., p. 322, § 1; Ga. L. 1951, p. 756, § 1; Ga. L. 1952, p. 305, § 2; Ga. L. 1964, p. 194, § 1; Code 1933, § 41A-3525, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 972, § 8; Ga. L. 1993, p. 917, § 7; Ga. L. 2016, p. 390, § 7-4/HB 811.

## Code Commission Notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2016, “associations or” was deleted preceding “savings and loan associations” in the middle of this Code section.