Administrators, executors, guardians, trustees, and other fiduciaries of every kind and nature; insurance companies; charitable, educational, eleemosynary, and public corporations and organizations; municipalities and other public corporations and bodies; and public officials are authorized to invest funds held by them, without any order of any court, in deposits in savings and loan associations which are insured under a federal deposit insurance program; and, to the extent of such insurance, such investments shall be deemed and held to be legal investments for such funds.
History. Ga. L. 1937-38, Ex. Sess., p. 322, § 1; Ga. L. 1951, p. 756, § 1; Ga. L. 1952, p. 305, § 2; Ga. L. 1964, p. 194, § 1; Code 1933, § 41A-3525, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 972, § 8; Ga. L. 1993, p. 917, § 7; Ga. L. 2016, p. 390, § 7-4/HB 811.
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2016, “associations or” was deleted preceding “savings and loan associations” in the middle of this Code section.
Structure Georgia Code
Chapter 1 - Financial Institutions
Article 7 - Building and Loan Associations and Savings and Loan Associations
§ 7-1-777. Principal and Branch Offices
§ 7-1-780. Lien on Deposits to Secure Loans
§ 7-1-781. Conversion Into Savings and Loan Association
§ 7-1-783. Previous Conversions Into Savings and Loan Associations Ratified
§ 7-1-787. Exemption From Securities Regulations
§ 7-1-790. Deposits of Fiduciaries
§ 7-1-791. Payment on Death of Depositor
§ 7-1-792. Deposits Applied to Funeral Expenses
§ 7-1-793. Investment of Funds in Insured Deposits
§ 7-1-794. Deposits as Security or in Lieu of Bond
§ 7-1-795. Savings Account Books and Certificates
§ 7-1-796. Insanity, Incompetency, Bankruptcy, or Death of Depositor