O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-16-68 (2019)

Use and title of property purchased at sheriff’s sale

✓ 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 property purchased as provided in Code Section 50-16-64 shall be for the use of the state, and the title thereto shall be made to the Governor and his successors in office and assigns.

History

Ga. L. 1873, p. 49, § 2; Code 1873, § 65; Code 1882, § 65; Civil Code

1895, § 128; Civil Code 1910, § 151; Code 1933, § 91-502.

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.

ARTICLE 4 MISCELLANEOUS SALE AND PURCHASE PROVISIONS