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2018 Georgia Code 49-2-5 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 49 SOCIAL SERVICES

Section 2. Department of Human Services, 49-2-1 through 49-2-25.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

49-2-5. Department is institution of state; power to receive and disburse state, county, and federal funds.

The department is declared to be an institution of the state for which the powers of taxation over the whole state may be exercised, and the department is empowered and authorized to administer, expend, and disburse funds appropriated to it and allocated to it by the General Assembly, the respective counties of the state, and the United States, through its appropriate agencies and instrumentalities for the purpose of distributing old-age benefits and all other benefits as provided in this title.

(Ga. L. 1937, p. 355, § 2; Ga. L. 1960, p. 85, § 2; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 49; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 65; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Voluntarily donated county funds.

- Department may accept public funds donated voluntarily by counties for the provision of day care and other social services to welfare applicants and other authorized recipients. 1972 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 72-12.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Funds, § 70 et seq. 79 Am. Jur. 2d, Welfare Laws, § 53 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 64A C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 2027. 82 C.J.S., Statutes, §§ 487, 488.

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