O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 19-11-30.5 (2019)

Failure of financial institution to comply

✓ 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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Any financial institution required to submit a report pursuant to Code Section 19-11-30.2 which fails without reasonable cause as determined by the department to comply with such reporting requirements and which, after notification by certified mail or statutory overnight delivery by the department, return receipt requested, of such failure, continues for more than 15 business days after the mailing of such notification to fail to comply without reasonable cause shall be liable for a penalty of $1,000.00. Any financial institution which willfully provides false information in reply to such notification shall be liable for a penalty of $1,000.00.

History

Code 1981, § 19-11-30.5, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1613, § 30; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 3; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1247, § 13.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 16, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that

this Code section is applicable with respect to notices delivered on or after July 1, 2000. Law reviews. For article on the 1997 enactment of this Code section, see 14 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 121 (1997).