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2018 Georgia Code 14-2-101 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 14 CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS

Section 2. Business Corporations, 14-2-101 through 14-2-1703.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

14-2-101. Short title.

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia Business Corporation Code."

(Code 1981, §14-2-101, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1070, § 1.)

Law reviews.

- For article, "Georgia Condominium Law: Beyond the Condominium Act," see 13 Ga. St. B. J. 24 (2007). For article, "The Georgia LLC Act Comes of Age," see 16 (No. 1) Ga. St. B. J. 20 (2010). For article, "Researching Georgia Law," see 34 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 741 (2015).

COMMENT

Source: 1984 Revised Model Business Corporation Act (3d ed.) ("Model Act") § 1.01. It follows the nomenclature of the former law, § 14-2-1. Citations to "former law" are to the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, including the 1987 Cumulative Supplement.

This Code was drawn primarily from the Model Act, which was prepared by the Committee on Corporate Laws of the Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law of the American Bar Association.

To the extent this statute follows the Model Act, the Official Comments to the Model Act should be regarded as providing guidance to the interpretation of this Code. Some of the comments to this Code were drawn from the Model Act, with permission of the publisher, Law & Business Inc. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Comments to Part 6 of Article 8 were drawn from Changes in the Model Business Corporation Act - Amendments Pertaining to Directors' Conflicting Interest Transactions, 43 Bus. Law. 691 (1988), with permission of the American Bar Association, and its Section of Corporation, Business and Banking Law.

As the title indicates, this Chapter deals only with business corporations, that is, corporations organized and operated for profit. The subject of nonprofit corporations is dealt with in Chapter 3 of Title 14, the "Georgia Nonprofit Corporation Code."

Cross-References Application of Act to existing domestic corporation, see § 14-2-1701. Application of Act to qualified existing foreign corporation, see § 14-2-1702. Close corporations, see Article 9. Effective date of Act, see § 14-2-1706. Professional corporations, see Georgia Professional Corporation Act, Title 14, Chapter 7. Saving provisions, see § 14-2-1703.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former Code Section 14-2-1, which was repealed by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1070, § 1, effective July 1, 1989, are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Cited in Broome v. Ginsberg, 159 Ga. App. 202, 283 S.E.2d 1 (1980); Miller & Meier & Assocs. v. Diedrich, 174 Ga. App. 249, 329 S.E.2d 918 (1985); Stephens v. McGarrity, 290 Ga. App. 755, 660 S.E.2d 770 (2008); Pandora Franchising, LLC v. Kingdom Retail Group, LLLP, 299 Ga. 723, 791 S.E.2d 786 (2016).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 14-2-101

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Pandora Franchising, LLC v. Kingdom Retail Grp., LLLP, 299 Ga. 723 (Ga. 2016).

Cited 22 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Oct 3, 2016 | 791 S.E.2d 786

...unty; if that place is not in Georgia, the right to remove is not applicable. The term “principal place of business” is not, and was not at the time subsection (b) (4) was enacted in 2000,5 defined in the Georgia Business Corporation Code, OCGA § 14-2-101 et seq....
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Shorter Coll. v. Baptist Convention of Georgia, 614 S.E.2d 37 (Ga. 2005).

Cited 15 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | May 23, 2005 | 279 Ga. 466, 2005 Fulton County D. Rep. 2099

...or-profit counterpart in OCGA § 14-2-1405. Indeed, the wording of the two statutes is essentially identical, and the Comment to OCGA § 14-3-1406 specifies that it "is based on section 14-2-1405 of the [Georgia] Business [Corporation] Code[, OCGA §§ 14-2-101 et seq.]" As statutes which are in pari materia, OCGA §§ 14-2-1405 and 14-3-1406 must be construed together and harmonized wherever possible....
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Serv. Corp. Int'l v. H. M. Patterson & Son, Inc., 434 S.E.2d 455 (Ga. 1993).

Cited 3 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Sep 13, 1993 | 263 Ga. 412, 93 Fulton County D. Rep. 3300

...ements to the directors of litigation expenses. SCI appeals from the trial court's ruling denying its motion on the basis that the directors had met the requirements of OCGA § 14-2-853 (a) of the Georgia Business Corporation Code (the "GBCC"). OCGA § 14-2-101 et seq....