O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-13-9 (2019)

Deputy sheriff’s liability; effect on sheriff

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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All deputy sheriffs shall be liable to be ruled and attached in the same way and manner as sheriffs. However, the liability of the sheriff shall not be affected by any such proceeding against his deputy when the same is not effective. (Laws 1841, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 580; Code 1863, § 3863; Code 1868, § 3883; Code 1873, § 3959; Code 1882, § 3959; Civil Code 1895, § 4780; Civil Code 1910, § 5352; Code 1933, § 24-203.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS After the deputy pays the money collected to the sheriff, the deputy is released. Varner v. Wootten, 38 Ga. 575 (1869). Sheriff liable for deputy’s taxing notes of third persons. - If deputy

taxes notes of third persons and gives receipt in full, the deputy’s act is no payment and the sheriff is liable therefor. Reynolds v. Dale, 33 Ga. 585 (1863). Cited in Jackson v. Luckie, 205 Ga. 100, 52 S.E.2d 588 (1949).