O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-18-4.1 (2019)

District attorney performing ordered military duty

✓ 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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(a) Any district attorney who is performing ordered military duty, as defined in Code Section 38-2-279, shall be eligible for reelection in any election, primary or general, which may be held to elect a successor for the next term of office, and may qualify in absentia as a candidate for reelection to such office.

(b) Where the giving of written notice of candidacy is required, any district attorney who is performing ordered military duty may deliver such notice by mail or messenger to the proper elections official. Any other act required by law of a candidate for public office may, during the time such official is on ordered military duty, be performed by an agent designated in writing by the absent public official.

History

(Code 1981, § 15-18-4.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 135, § 1.)