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Georgia Code Title 53. Wills, Trusts, and Administration of Estates § 53-12-290

Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

Whenever a bank or trust company is duly authorized to act and is acting as a fiduciary, which term shall include an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, or conservator, and has a nominee in whose name securities, including, without limitation, bonds, stocks, notes, and other evidences of title to intangible personal property, held as a fiduciary, may be registered, it shall be lawful to register securities in the name of the nominee without mention of the fiduciary relationship in the trust instrument evidencing the securities or on the books of the issuer of the same, provided that:

(1) The records of the corporate fiduciary shall at all times clearly show that the securities are held by the corporate fiduciary in its capacity as fiduciary, together with the beneficial owner or owners thereof and all facts relating to its ownership, possession, and holding thereof; and

(2) The corporate fiduciary shall not be relieved of liability for the safe custody, control, and proper distribution of the securities by reason of the registration of same in the name of any nominee.

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