2019 Georgia Code
Title 20 - Education
Chapter 3 - Postsecondary Education
Article 9 - Georgia Military College
Part 2 - Funding; Donations; Property; Scholarships
§ 20-3-562. Validity of prior trust provisions; substitution of trustee
Any trust fund or property, real, personal, or mixed, that may have been created prior to July 1, 1996, by will or otherwise, as a fund, gift, donation, or devise to any prior board of trustees of the college or to any executor or trustee to and for the benefit, use, or behoof of the college shall not lapse by virtue of any of the provisions of this article, but such trust shall remain valid and of full force and effect; and the beneficial interest under any such deed of gift, will, or other conveyance shall vest in the board of trustees as trustee to and for the use, benefit, and behoof of the college. In any case where provisions of any deed of gift, will, or other conveyance referred to in this Code section require a trustee and no trustee shall in any contingency exist, the board shall be and become a substituted trustee to carry out the beneficial purposes of such gift, devise, or conveyance.
History:Code 1981, § 20-3-562, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 579, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 296, § 3.
