O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-12-1 (2019)

General supervision of paupers

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

History

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.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Inquiry as to chargeability. - 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).

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.