2020 Georgia Code
Title 7 - Banking and Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Institutions
Article 2 - Banks and Trust Companies
- Part 1 - General Matters
- Part 2 - General Powers of Banks and Trust Companies
- Part 3 - Powers of Banks
- Part 4 - Powers of Trust Companies
- Part 4A - Affiliate Transfers
- Part 5 - Fiduciary Investment Companies
- Part 6 - Deposits, Safe-Deposit Agreements, and Money Received for Transmission
- Part 7 - Banking Depositories, Reserves, and Remissions
- Part 8 - Incorporation of Banks and Trust Companies
- Part 9 - Financial Structure
- Part 10 - Shareholders
- Part 11 - Dividends, Distributions, and Preferred Share Acquisition
- Part 12 - Management
- Part 13 - Amendment of Articles
- Part 14 - Merger and Consolidation of State Banks and Trust Companies
- Part 15 - Conversions, Mergers, and Consolidations Involving National Banks
- Part 16 - Sale and Other Disposition of Assets
- Part 17 - Representative Offices and Registration
- Part 18 - Bank Branches, Offices, Facilities, and Holding Companies
- Part 19 - Interstate Acquisitions of Banks and Bank Holding Companies
- Part 20 - Interstate Banking and Branching by Merger
- For survey article on business associations, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 13 (1982).
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Investment programs offered jointly by banks and brokerage firms.
- Brokerage firm is not prohibited, by virtue of O.C.G.A. T. 7, C. 1, Art. 2 and O.C.G.A. § 7-1-241, from offering, in conjunction with a bank, an investment program whereby the brokerage permits customers to maintain special accounts and receives and transmits money in connection with such accounts. 1981 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 81-59.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR.
- Bank to which paper is sent for collection of principal or interest as agent of obligor, 55 A.L.R. 1168.
Effect of appointment of conservator for bank, 91 A.L.R. 234; 92 A.L.R. 1258; 107 A.L.R. 1431.
Legal questions presented by the reopening of closed bank, 99 A.L.R. 1217.
State banks, insurance companies, or building and loan associations, which are members of federal reserve bank or similar federal agency, or national banks, as within state social security or Unemployment Compensation Act, 165 A.L.R. 1250.
PART 1 GENERAL MATTERS
Cross references.
- Limitations on legislature's powers, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. VI, Para. V.
Secretary of State corporations, T. 14, C. 4.
Forgery and criminal issuance of bad checks, § 16-9-1 et seq.
Criminal penalties for illegal use of credit cards or bank services cards, § 16-9-30 et seq.
Bond requirements for banks and trust companies acting as guardian of property, § 29-4-16.
Authority of notaries public who are officers, employees, or other representatives of banks to take acknowledgment of any party to any written instrument executed to or by such bank, § 45-17-12.
Appointment of banks and trust companies as state depositories, § 50-17-50 et seq.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR.
- Liability of bank which credits paper payable to a corporation to the personal credit of corporate officer who indorsed it, and pays out the proceeds on the latter's personal checks, 9 A.L.R. 346.
Duty and liability of bank under agreement to remit money or establish credit, 27 A.L.R. 1488; 45 A.L.R. 1052; 69 A.L.R. 673.
When bank deemed insolvent, or "hopelessly" insolvent, in civil cases, 85 A.L.R. 811.
Statute regulating banks and trust companies as special or class legislation, or as denying the equal protection of the laws, 111 A.L.R. 140.
Stipulation relieving bank from, or limiting its liability for disregard of, stop-payment order, 1 A.L.R.2d 1155.
Admissibility, in negligence action against bank by depositor, of evidence as to custom of banks in locality in handling and dealing with checks and other items involved, 8 A.L.R.2d 446.
Bank's liability for breach of implied contract of good faith and fair dealing, 55 A.L.R.4th 1026.
Bank's liability to customer for imposing allegedly excessive service charges, 73 A.L.R.4th 1028.
