O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 36-1-13 (2019)
Speculation in county orders by county officer
✓ 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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Any public officer of any county in this state who buys up at a discount or in any manner speculates in what are known as ‘‘county orders,’’ ‘‘jury scrip,’’ or any other order or scrip which is to be paid out of any public fund of this state or of any county in this state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be removed from office.
History
Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 79, § 1; Code 1882, § 4562g; Penal Code 1895,
§ 277; Penal Code 1910, § 281; Code 1933, §§ 23-9909, 23-1610.
Annotations
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 365.