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2025 Code of Georgia
Title 14 - Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations (Chs. 1 — 11)
Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Corporations (Arts. 1 — 3)
Article 3 - Corporations Organized for Religious, Fraternal, or Educational Purposes (§§ 14-5-40 — 14-5-51)
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Cross references.Use of names and emblems by fraternal or charitable organizations, § 10-1-470 et seq.
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. Proof of Facts. —Wrongful Expulsion from Voluntary Social Organization, 44 POF2d 455.
Civil Liability of Member or Officer of Unincorporated Association, 6 POF3d 679.
ALR.Interference by courts with regulations of associations or societies as to language to be used, 36 A. L. R. 1531.
Necessity and sufficiency of legislative authority for consolidation or merger of religious bodies, 50 A. L. R. 118.
Undue influence in nontestamentary gift to clergyman, spiritual adviser, or church, 14 A. L. R.2d 649.
Determination of property rights between local church and parent church body: modern view, 52 A. L. R.3d 324.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 14
O. C. G. A. Title 14, Ch. 5
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O.C.G.A. Title 14, Ch. 5, Art. 3
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- § 14-5-40. Applicability of Chapter 3 of title
- § 14-5-41. Validity of contracts and deposits; enforcement
- § 14-5-42. Authority to act as trustee of charitable trust
- § 14-5-43. Church represented by majority; effect of withdrawal of part of congregation
- § 14-5-44. Church edifice liable to sale for debt
- § 14-5-45. Interference by courts with management of church
- § 14-5-46. Conveyances to churches or religious societies confirmed
- § 14-5-47. Authority of churches or religious societies over trustees holding land for their use
- § 14-5-48. Vacancies in administration of land trusts for use of churches and religious societies; certificate of appointment
- § 14-5-49. Applicability of Code Sections 14-5-46 through 14-5-48 to other societies
- § 14-5-50. Corporate rights generally
- § 14-5-51. Powers of eleemosynary and religious corporations extended
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