O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 21-2-70.1 (2019)

Municipal superintendents

✓ 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) The municipal superintendent shall conduct, in accordance with this chapter, all municipal elections held within his or her municipality. (b) The municipal superintendent shall be a person or committee selected by the governing authority of the municipality in a public meeting, and such selection shall be recorded in the minutes of such meeting. The municipal superintendent shall receive compensation fixed and paid by the governing authority of the municipality from municipal funds. The appointment shall be made in a public meeting, and the appointment shall be recorded in the minutes of said meeting.

ELECTIONS & PRIMARIES

In the event that a municipality fails to make an appointment, the city clerk shall serve as the municipal superintendent. A parent, spouse, child, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law of a candidate shall not be eligible to serve as a municipal superintendent in any primary or election in which such candidate’s name appears on the ballot.

History

Code 1981, § 21-2-70.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 2001, p. 230, § 4; Ga. L. 2001, p. 240, § 3; Ga. L. 2003, p. 151, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 517, § 6; Ga. L. 2008, p. 781, § 4/HB 1112.

Annotations

Law reviews. For survey article on local government law, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 225 (1982).

For note on the 2001 amendment to this Code section, see 18 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 114 (2001). For article, “Local Government Law,” see 53 Mercer L. Rev. 389 (2001).

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. 62 C.J.S., §§ 461, 462.

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Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2008–2008 · leading case: Lewis v. O'DAY, 667 S.E.2d 594 (Ga. 2008).

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Lewis v. O'DAY, 667 S.E.2d 594 (Ga. 2008). · cites it 2× “The evidence adduced before the trial court established that Santa Claus had no municipal superintendent, see OCGA § 21-2-70.1 (a), because *424 the November 6, 2007 election was the first contested election in Santa Claus in over 20 years.”

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