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2018 Georgia Code 20-5-22 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 20-5-22 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 20-5-22

TITLE 20 EDUCATION

Section 5. Libraries, 20-5-1 through 20-5-65.

ARTICLE 2 LOCAL AND REGIONAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES

20-5-22. Acceptance of donations by trustees.

The board of trustees of the public library of a city is authorized to accept and receive donations, either in money, land, or other property, for the purpose of erecting or assisting in the erection of suitable buildings for the use of such public library, for maintaining it, or for assisting in maintaining it.

(Ga. L. 1901, p. 52, § 3; Ga. L. 1904, p. 90, § 3; Civil Code 1910, § 1568; Code 1933, § 32-2703.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Donation becomes public property.

- Donation made to the library trustees of a city and accepted by the trustees becomes the public property of the municipality. Tedder v. Walker, 145 Ga. 768, 89 S.E. 840 (1916).

Trustees making illegal personal loan of donation personally liable to city for money.

- When a donation was made to a municipality for a library and the trustees made a personal loan of it, such loan being illegal, the lenders are personally liable to the city for the money. Tedder v. Walker, 145 Ga. 768, 89 S.E. 840 (1916).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 56 Am. Jur. 2d, Municipal Corporations, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions, §§ 326, 510.

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