O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-16-64 (2019)

Authority for Governor to purchase property at sheriff’s sale under execution in favor of state

✓ 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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At all sheriff’s sales under any execution in favor of the state or the Governor, the Governor, or anyone authorized by him, may purchase the property so sold, provided that in no case shall more be bid for such property than the amount due the state upon the execution.

History

Ga. L. 1873, p. 49, § 1; Code 1873, § 64; Code 1882, § 64; Civil Code

1895, § 127; Civil Code 1910, § 150; Code 1933, § 91-501.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Transfer of property purchased at sheriff ’s sale to department. - Department need not request that the Governor prepare a deed conveying property purchased by the state through a sheriff ’s sale to a department; a department must request that the Governor execute an executive order transferring the use of the

property to a department. 1970 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 70-15. Disposition of acquired property. - Property acquired by Highway Board (now Transportation Board) pursuant to issuance of fi. fa. must be sold or rented by board and cannot be appropriated to use of board. 1962 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 275.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 30 Am. Jur. 2d, Executions and Enforcement of Judgments, § 276.

C.J.S. - 33 C.J.S., Executions, § 366 et seq.