O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 21-2-596 (2019)

Failure of public or political officer to perform 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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Any public officer or any officer of a political party or body on whom a duty is laid by this chapter who willfully neglects or refuses to perform his or her duty shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Code 1933, § 34-1935, enacted by Ga. L.

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

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Requirement that additional registration places be advertised. - Former Code 1933, § 34-610 (see now O.C.G.A. § 21-2-218(d)) may be enforced as to future registration by mandamus or injunction against the registrars and in any instance where it is willfully abro-

gated by the responsible public officers, they are subject to criminal prosecution under former Code 1933, § 34-1935 (see now O.C.G.A. § 21-2-596). Malone v. Tison, 248 Ga. 209, 282 S.E.2d 84, 1981 Ga. LEXIS 952 (1981).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Fingerprinting not required. - An offense under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-596 would not be designated as one which requires

fingerprinting. 1998 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 98-20.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 26 Am. Jur. 2d, Elections, § 449.

C.J.S. 29 C.J.S., Elections, § 573.