2020 Georgia Code
Title 7 - Banking and Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Institutions
Article 2 - Banks and Trust Companies
Part 12 - Management
§ 7-1-489. Fidelity Bonds
Any director who is authorized to handle money or negotiable assets on behalf of a bank or trust company and all officers and employees of a bank or trust company shall be bonded by a regularly incorporated surety company authorized to do business in this state, and the bank or trust company may pay the cost of such fidelity bonds. The form, amount, and surety of such fidelity bonds shall be such as are approved by the board of directors; but the department may require an additional amount or new or additional surety.
(Ga. L. 1919, p. 135, art. 19, § 10; Ga. L. 1920, p. 102, § 1; Ga. L. 1922, p. 63, § 1; Code 1933, § 13-2010; Code 1933, § 41A-2210, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 344, § 10/HB 184.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 10 Am. Jur. 2d, Banks and Financial Institutions, §§ 344, 476.
C.J.S.- 9 C.J.S., Banks and Banking, §§ 102, 261.
