Existing venue statutes unaffected by chapter

Nothing in this chapter shall affect existing statutes with respect to the venue of actions against railroad, electric, banking, trust, insurance, canal, navigation, express, and telegraph companies, which existing statutes include, as to express companies, those statutes codified as Code Sections 46-9-234 through 46-9-236; as to companies under the jurisdiction of the Georgia Public Service Commission, that statute codified as Code Section 46-2-92. (Code 1933, § 22-4802, en784 14-4-22 acted by Ga. L. 1969, p. 152, § 98; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 14; Ga. L. 2012, p. 847, § 1/HB 1115.) COMMENT Note to 1981 Amendment The 1981 amendment to this section added the word ‘‘trust’’ to the list of companies in this section. ARTICLE 2 INCORPORATION 14-4-21. Number of directors; effect upon acts of directors prior to April 1, 1969. Every banking, trust, insurance, railroad, canal, navigation, express, and telegraph corporation shall have such number of directors, not less than three, as may be provided by its charter, any amendment thereto granted prior to April 1, 1969, or thereafter, or by its bylaws in the absence of any such charter provision. The effect of this Code section shall be that all actions taken prior to April 1, 1969, by the board of directors of any such corporation shall be valid and binding for all purposes as if this Code section had been enacted before such action was taken and as if such board of directors had been constituted as provided by this Code section. (Ga. L. 1958, p. 92, §§ 1, 2; Code 1933, § 22-4102, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 565, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 506, § 2.) Editor’s notes. — Ga. L. 1983, p. 506, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: ‘‘It is the intent of this Act to implement certain changes required by Article III, Section VI, Paragraph V (a) of the Constitution of the State of Georgia.’’