O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 21-2-15 (2019)

Applicability of chapter

✓ 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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This chapter shall apply to any general or special election in this state to fill any federal, state, county, or municipal office, to any general or special primary to nominate candidates for any such office, and to any federal, state, county, or municipal election or primary for any other purpose whatsoever, unless otherwise provided.

History

Code 1933, § 34-102, enacted by Ga. L.

1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Ground for contest applicable in municipal election. - Although the Georgia Election Code was not applicable by its terms to municipal elections, in the absence of any statutory grounds for contest in the Georgia Municipal Election

Code, the ground for contest in former Code 1933, § 34-1703 (see now O.C.G.A. § 21-2-522(c)) was a good ground of contest in a municipal election. Davidson v. Bryan, 242 Ga. 282, 248 S.E.2d 657, 1978 Ga. LEXIS 1171 (1978).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Applicability to city elections. - The provisions of the Election Code relating to the “nomination of candidates” shall apply to city elections, except where the provisions of the charter differ from the code. 1967 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 67-239. Hospital or school bond elections. - Law, which made it a misdemeanor to sell intoxicating beverages on election days, applied to school or hospital bond elections. 1965-66 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 6517. Election Code provisions not limited by malt beverage regulations. - Malt beverage regulations may not be

modified so as to permit the sale of malt beverages after the hours of the election, or changed to limit the prohibition on election days only with respect to statewide elections, such as a general election or a state-wide primary. 1965-66 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 66-13. “Election day” construed. - The term “election day”, as used in the Constitution, has been construed by the Supreme Court of this state as encompassing a period of time from midnight preceding the opening of the polls until midnight succeeding the closing of the polls. 1965-66 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 66-13.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1999–1999 · leading case: Holton v. Hollingsworth, 514 S.E.2d 6 (Ga. 1999).

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Holton v. Hollingsworth, 514 S.E.2d 6 (Ga. 1999). · cites it 2× “OCGA § 21-2-15. Although the Election Code, as amended, is very similar to the repealed Municipal Election Code, we apply the latter in this case.”

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