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

O.C.G.A. § 25-4-4 (2019)

Eligibility of council and volunteer council members for public office

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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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Membership on the council or volunteer council does not constitute public office, and no member shall be disqualified from holding public office by reason of his or her membership.

History

Ga. L. 1971, p. 693, § 4; Ga. L. 1977, p. 549, § 1; Ga. L. 2020, p. 515, § 6/SB 342.

The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, inserted “or volunteer council” and “or her”.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 48 et seq.

C.J.S. 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, §§ 12, 21, 22, 37 et seq.