Section 7-1-398 - Liability for premature business

Incorporators and other persons who organize a bank or trust company which transacts business before its capital stock and paid-in capital have been paid in shall be jointly and severally liable to depositors and other creditors to make good the amounts not paid in by subscribers or otherwise deficient. Such liability shall be deemed as an asset of the bank or trust company and may be enforced by it, its successors or assignees, or by a shareholder suing derivatively, or by a receiver appointed under this chapter.Amended by 2019 Ga. Laws 270,§ 8, eff. 7/1/2019.