O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 28-1-13 (2019)

Eligibility of elected county or municipal officials for membership in General Assembly

✓ 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 elected county or municipal official shall be eligible to serve as a member of the General Assembly.

History

(Ga. L. 1977, p. 683, § 1.)

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL The General Assembly’s intent in enacting Ga. L. 1977, p. 683 (see O.C.G.A. § 28-1-13) was to prohibit a person from serving simultaneously as a

member of the General Assembly and as an elected county or municipal official, without regard to which office the person held first. 1977 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U77-40.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 76. C.J.S. - 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 41.

ALR. - Incompatibility, under common-law doctrine, of office of state legislator and position or post in local political subdivision, 89 A.L.R.2d 632.