O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 7-1-788 (2019)

Notaries and other officers not disqualified by interest in association; validation of prior instruments

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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.

History

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.

Annotations

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.