O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 35-8-4 (2019)

Officers of council; quorum; minutes of meetings and records; reports to Governor and 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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The business of the council shall be conducted in the following manner:

(1) The officers of the council, who shall consist of a chairperson, vice chairperson, and secretary-treasurer, shall be elected at the first meeting of each calendar year.

(2) Eleven members of the council shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

(3) The council shall maintain minutes of its meetings and such other records as it deems necessary.

(4) The council shall report at least annually to the Governor and to the General Assembly as to its activities.

History

Ga. L. 1970, p. 208, § 4; Ga. L. 2018, p. 336, § 1/HB 867. The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, substituted ‘‘chairperson, vice chairperson’’ for ‘‘chairman, vice-chair-

man’’ in paragraph (1); and substituted ‘‘Eleven’’ for ‘‘Seven’’ at the beginning of paragraph (2).