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

7-1-793. Investment of funds in insured deposits.

Administrators, executors, guardians, trustees, and other fiduciaries of every kind and nature; insurance companies; charitable, educational, eleemosynary, and public corporations and organizations; municipalities and other public corporations and bodies; and public officials are authorized to invest funds held by them, without any order of any court, in deposits in savings and loan associations which are insured under a federal deposit insurance program; and, to the extent of such insurance, such investments shall be deemed and held to be legal investments for such funds.

(Ga. L. 1937-38, Ex. Sess., p. 322, § 1; Ga. L. 1951, p. 756, § 1; Ga. L. 1952, p. 305, § 2; Ga. L. 1964, p. 194, § 1; Code 1933, § 41A-3525, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 972, § 8; Ga. L. 1993, p. 917, § 7; Ga. L. 2016, p. 390, § 7-4/HB 811.)

The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, purported to delete the reference to building and loan associations in the middle of this Code section but actually only deleted "building and loan". See the Code Commission note.