TITLE 46 PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Section 3. Electrical Service, 46-3-1 through 46-3-541.

ARTICLE 4 ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATIONS AND FOREIGN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES

46-3-438. Deposit with Office of the State Treasurer of amount due unknown, disabled, or unlocatable creditors or members; disposition of unclaimed amounts; time limitation.

Upon the voluntary or involuntary dissolution of an electric membership corporation, the portion of the assets distributable to a creditor or member who is unknown or cannot be found, or who is under disability and has no known representative legally competent to receive such distributive portion, shall be reduced to cash and deposited with the Office of the State Treasurer and shall be paid over to such creditor or member or to his legal representative upon proof satisfactory to the Office of the State Treasurer of his right thereto. After the Office of the State Treasurer has held the unclaimed cash for six months, the Office of the State Treasurer shall pay such cash to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, to be held without liability for profit or interest until a claim for such cash shall be filed with the Office of the State Treasurer by the parties entitled thereto. No such claim shall be made more than six years after such cash is deposited with the Office of the State Treasurer.

(Code 1933, § 34C-1219, enacted by Ga. L. 1981, p. 1587, § 1; Ga. L. 2008, p. 230, § 2/SB 175; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 2/SB 296.)

The 2008 amendment, effective July 1, 2008, substituted "Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services" for "Department of Administrative Services" throughout this Code section.

The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, substituted "Office of the State Treasurer" for "Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services" six times throughout this Code section.