O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 49-5-17 (2019)

Power of department to accept and use gifts

✓ 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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The department is authorized and empowered to receive, accept, hold, and use, on behalf of the state and for purposes provided for in this article, gifts, grants, donations, devises, and bequests of real, personal, and mixed property of every kind and description.

History

Ga. L. 1963, p. 81, § 18.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Department of Human Resources (now Department of Human Services) 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. Contracting with counties for purchase or transfer of land. - Division

for Children and Youth (now Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Services) is authorized to contract with a county for the purchase or transfer of land to be used for a maximum security child detention center. 1970 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 70-104; 1970 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 70-187.

PROGRAMS & PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. 14 C.J.S., Charities, §§ 16, 32 et seq.