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

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-10 (2019)

Gifts or compensation to members, appointees, or their families from publishers prohibited; reporting offers; penalty

✓ 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) No member or appointee of the State Board of Education or any other person having authority to select or aid in the selection of textbooks for the schools shall for himself or any member of his family receive any gift, compensation, or remuneration from any schoolbook publishing house, corporation, individual, or agent or representative of either; nor shall any such person, publishing house, or corporation offer, directly or indirectly, to any member of the state board or his family or appointees any gift, compensation, or remuneration. Should any such publishing house, corporation, or person offer to any such officers, their families, or appointees any compensation, remuneration, or gift, they

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shall report such offer to the grand juries of their respective counties. The judges of the superior courts in charging the grand jury from term to term shall give instructions concerning this Code section and article.

(b) Any person violating subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Ga. L. 1911, p. 94, § 23; Ga. L. 1919, p. 288, § 15; Code 1933, §§ 32-406, 32-9901, 32-9902; Ga. L. 1937, p. 864, §§ 8, 9.

Annotations

Cross references. Instructional materials and content, T. 20, C. 2, A. 19.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 68 Am. Jur. 2d, Schools, § 29. C.J.S. 78 C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, § 96 et seq.

ALR. Gift for public school as a valid charitable gift, 48 A.L.R. 1126. Gift for lectures as a valid charitable gift, 48 A.L.R. 1142.