O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 21-2-76 (2019)

Eligibility of person to serve as county election superintendent

✓ 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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No person who holds elective office, as defined in this chapter and including every municipal office to which persons can be elected by a vote of the electors under the laws of this state but excluding the office of probate judge, shall be eligible to serve as county or municipal election superintendent during the term of such elective office; and the position of any election superintendent other than a probate judge shall be deemed vacant upon such superintendent’s qualifying as a candidate for elective public office, as defined in this chapter and including any municipal office to which persons can be elected by a vote of the electors under the laws of this state.

History

Code 1981, § 21-2-76, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 1216, § 2; Ga. L. 1998, p. 145,

§ 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 1999, p. 52, § 3.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Membership on county boards of elections. - O.C.G.A. § 21-2-76 does not prohibit persons who hold office in political parties from serving as members of

county boards of elections or boards of elections and registration as created under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-40. 1996 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 96-18.