O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 20-5-22 (2019)

Acceptance of donations by trustees

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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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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.

History

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

Annotations

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.