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2017 Georgia Code
Title 20 - Education
Chapter 3 - Postsecondary Education
Article 7 - Scholarships, Loans, and Grants
Part 2 - Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation
§ 20-3-263. Corporation created as successor to former Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation
Universal Citation: GA Code § 20-3-263 (2017)
- (a) There is created a public authority, a body corporate and politic, to be known as the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation, which shall be deemed to be an instrumentality and a nonprofit public corporation of the state.
- (b) The corporation created by subsection (a) of this Code section shall be the successor to and a continuation of, without interruption, the previously existing Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation created by an Act approved March 12, 1965 (Ga. L. 1965, p. 217), as amended. The continuation of the Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation, as provided in this Code section, shall in no way affect any existing obligations, liabilities, or rights of the previously existing Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation. All such obligations, liabilities, and rights, including, without limitation, obligations, liabilities, and rights in respect of loan guaranties issued to lenders by the previously existing corporation and in respect of payment of state interest subsidies and placement, conversion, and loan discount fees on loans guaranteed by the previously existing corporation, pursuant to provisions of state and federal laws in effect at the time such obligations, liabilities, and rights were incurred or created are transferred to, vested in, and assumed by the corporation created by subsection (a) of this Code section. All contracts and agreements between any party and the previously existing Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation shall not be affected by this Code section but shall continue in full force and effect, without interruption, as contracts or agreements between such party and the corporation created by subsection (a) of this Code section.
- (c) Right, title, interests in, and ownership of all assets of the previously existing Georgia Higher Education Assistance Corporation are transferred to and vested in the corporation created by subsection (a) of this Code section.
- (d) The corporation created by subsection (a) of this Code section is designated as the state guaranty agency to administer the program in this state as provided for in the federal act and this part.
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