Georgia § 14-3-503 - Resignation of registered agent.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 14-3-503 — Resignation of registered agent., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 14-3-503. Resignation of registered agent.
A registered agent may resign his or her agency appointment by signing and delivering to the Secretary of State for filing a statement of resignation. The statement may include a statement that the registered office is also discontinued. On or before the date of the filing of the statement of resignation, the registered agent shall deliver or mail a written notice of the agent's intention to resign to the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, secretary of the corporation, or a person holding a position comparable to any of the foregoing, as named and at the address shown in the annual registration, or in the articles of incorporation if no annual registration has been filed. The agency appointment is terminated, and the registered office discontinued if so provided, on the earlier of the filing by the corporation of an amendment to its annual registration designating a new registered agent and registered office if also discontinued or the thirty-first day after the date on which the statement was filed. (Code 1981, § 14-3-503 , enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 465, § 1; Ga. L. 2004, p. 508, § 68.)
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