O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 14-3-1008 (2019)

Effect of amendment on existing cause of action

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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An amendment to the articles of incorporation does not affect a cause of action existing against or in favor of the corporation, a proceeding to which the corporation is a party, any requirement or limitation imposed upon the corporation or any property held by it by virtue of any trust upon which such property is held by the corporation, or the existing rights of persons other than members of the corporation. An amendment changing a corporation’s name does not abate a proceeding brought by or against the corporation in its former name.

History

(Code 1981, § 14-3-1008, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 465, § 1.)

Annotations

COMMENT This section is based both on the Model Act and its Business Code counterpart, section 14-2-1009. The phrase ‘‘any requirement or limitation imposed upon the corporation or any property held by it by virtue of any trust upon which such property is held by the corporation’’ is from the Model Act and does not appear in section 14-2-1009.

CORPORATIONS & PARTNERSHIPS

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 6 Am. Jur. 2d, Associations and Clubs, § 9. 18 Am. Jur. 2d, Corporations, § 83.

C.J.S. - 7 C.J.S., Associations, § 6. 18 C.J.S., Corporations, § 81.

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