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O.C.G.A. § 36-12-1 — General supervision of paupers | Georgia Code

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TITLE 36 LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Section 12. Supervision and Support of Paupers, 36-12-1 through 36-12-5.

ARTICLE 2 COUNTY GOVERNING AUTHORITIES

36-12-1. General supervision of paupers.

The general supervision of all paupers is vested in the county governing authority.

(Laws 1792, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 346; Laws 1818, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 347; Code 1863, § 710; Code 1868, § 776; Code 1873, § 754; Code 1882, § 754; Civil Code 1895, § 426; Civil Code 1910, § 541; Code 1933, § 23-2101.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Inquiry as to chargeability.

- Under this section, until there has been some inquiry into the circumstances of the poor who will be treated as paupers and who shall become chargeable to the county, no persons can be properly said to be so chargeable. Justices of Inferior Court v. Chapman, 16 Ga. 89 (1854) (see O.C.G.A. § 36-12-1).

Confederate soldiers, referred to in the expression "indigent pensioners," as used in Ga. L. 1909, p. 17, § 2, cannot be classed as paupers. Clark v. Walton, 137 Ga. 277, 73 S.E. 392 (1911).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Presumption and burden of proof of settlement in action by one town or poor district against another for support of pauper, 99 A.L.R. 457.

Tort liability of municipality or other governmental subdivision in connection with poor relief activities, 134 A.L.R. 762.

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