O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-37-3 (2019)

Municipal corporations as trustees for donated or gifted property generally

✓ 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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Municipal corporations may act as trustees under any conveyance or will donating or giving property for charitable or eleemosynary purposes.

History

Ga. L. 1892, p. 104, § 2; Civil Code 1895, § 741; Civil Code 1910, § 888; Code 1933, § 69-502.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Bequests for charitable purposes. - Incorporated city of this state is authorized, under former Civil Code 1910, §§ 887 and 888 (see now O.C.G.A. §§ 36-37-2 and 36-37-3), to receive and apply bequest for charitable purposes. Moss v. Youngblood, 187 Ga. 188, 200 S.E. 689 (1938). Devises for parks. - Georgia cities

and towns are authorized to accept devises of property for establishment and preservation of ‘‘parks and pleasure grounds’’ and to hold the property thus received in charitable trust for the exclusive benefit of the class of persons named by the testator. Evans v. Abney, 396 U.S. 435, 90 S. Ct. 628, 24 L. Ed. 2d 634 (1970).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 56 Am. Jur. 2d, Municipal Corporations, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions, §§ 472, 483. C.J.S. - 63 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 1142.

ALR. - Power of municipal corporation or other political body to accept and administer trust, 10 A.L.R. 1368. Liability of township trustees for loss of public funds, 18 A.L.R. 982.