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(Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 88, § 2; Code 1882, § 943b; Ga. L. 1895, p. 22, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 984; Civil Code 1910, § 1251; Code 1933, § 100-103; Ga. L. 1949, p. 13, § 8; Ga. L. 1992, p. 1247, § 2; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 4/SB 296.)
- When a bank has made a contract with the state, whereby the bank agrees to pay the state a certain rate of interest on daily balances on deposit in the bank, belonging to the state, and the bank subsequently becomes insolvent and a receiver is appointed to take charge of the bank's assets, the state can recover of the receiver the principal sum due the state and interest at the contract rate to the date of the appointment of a receiver for the assets of the bank. Central Bank & Trust Corp. v. State, 139 Ga. 54, 76 S.E. 587 (1912).
- Terms "the most advantageous contracts for interest" and "time deposit agreements" permit the state treasurer to purchase negotiable certificates of deposit from state depositories provided the negotiable certificates of deposit are at the rates of interest required by the State Depository Board. 1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 71-79.
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