The department is authorized and empowered to receive, accept, hold, and use, on behalf of the state and for purposes provided for in this article, gifts, grants, donations, devises, and bequests of real, personal, and mixed property of every kind and description.
(Ga. L. 1963, p. 81, § 18.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALDepartment of Human Resources may accept public funds donated voluntarily by counties for the provision of day-care and other social services to welfare applicants and other authorized recipients. 1972 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 72-12.
Contracting with counties for purchase or transfer of land.- Division for Children and Youth (now Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Resources) is authorized to contract with a county for the purchase or transfer of land to be used for a maximum security child detention center. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-104; 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-187.
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- 14 C.J.S., Charities, §§ 16, 32 et seq.