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

O.C.G.A. § 35-9-5 (2019)

Issuance of certificate of appointment; effect of certificate

✓ 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 appointing authority shall issue a certificate of appointment to each person appointed as a special policeman under Code Sections 35-9-2 through 35-9-4, this Code section, and Code Sections 35-9-6 through 35-9-14 in such form as it may prescribe.

(b) The certificate of appointment shall constitute the appointee’s authority for exercising the powers and carrying out the duties conferred and imposed upon him by Code Sections 35-9-2 through 35-9-4, this Code section, and Code Sections 35-9-6 through 35-9-12.

History

Ga. L. 1943, p. 595, § 3; Ga. L. 1993, p. 91, § 35.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 70 Am. Jur. 2d, Sheriffs, Police, and Constables, § 13. C.J.S. - 63 C.J.S., Municipal Corpora-

tions, § 628 et seq. 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, §§ 90, 91, 141, 188.