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O.C.G.A. § 7-1-788 — Notaries and other officers not disqualified by interest in association; validation of prior instruments | Georgia Code
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TITLE 7 BANKING AND FINANCE

Section 1. Financial Institutions, 7-1-1 through 7-1-1021.

ARTICLE 7 BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS

7-1-788. Notaries and other officers not disqualified by interest in association; validation of prior instruments.

No notary public or other public officer shall be disqualified from taking the acknowledgment of or witnessing any instrument, in writing, in which a savings and loan association is interested, by reason of his holding an office in or being a member of or being pecuniarily interested in or employed by such association so interested; and any such acknowledgments or attestations taken prior to April 1, 1975, are validated.

(Ga. L. 1937-38, Ex. Sess., p. 307, § 15; Code 1933, § 41A-3519, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1; Ga. L. 2016, p. 390, § 7-4/HB 811.)

The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, deleted "a building and loan association or" preceding "a savings and loan association" near the middle of this Code section.

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