Georgia § 7-1-159 - Suspension or continuation of business.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 7-1-159 — Suspension or continuation of business., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 7-1-159. Suspension or continuation of business.
The department is authorized, upon taking possession of the business and property of a financial institution as receiver, to continue or to suspend the business for such period as it may deem necessary to enable it to determine whether to surrender such possession to the financial institution, to authorize a merger or consolidation, to liquidate the affairs of such financial institution, or to take such other action as is authorized by law. (Code 1933, § 41A-710, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1.)
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