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

O.C.G.A. § 36-6-1 (2019)

Qualifications for office; election; commission; term; abolishment and fixing compensation of office by General Assembly

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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(a) No other conditions of eligibility are required for the office of county treasurer than those which apply to all other county officers, provided that no other county officer can also be county treasurer.

(b) County treasurers shall be elected and commissioned in the same manner and at the same time as clerks of the superior courts and shall hold their offices for terms of four years. The General Assembly, by local law, may abolish the office of county treasurer in any county and may fix the compensation of the county treasurer.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 520; Code 1868, § 584; Code 1873, § 546; Code 1882, § 546; Civil Code 1895, § 452; Civil Code 1910, § 568; Code 1933, § 23-1002; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1212, § 1.

Annotations

Cross references. - Eligibility for

county office, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. IX, Sec. I, Para. III. Eligibility for public office generally, T. 45, C. 2.

Law reviews. - For annual survey article on local government law, see 52 Mercer L. Rev. 341 (2000).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Nash v. Pierce, 238 Ga. App. 466, 519 S.E.2d 462 (1999).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1990–1999 · leading case: Cartwright v. State, 399 S.E.2d 736 (Ga. Ct. App. 1990).
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Cartwright v. State, 399 S.E.2d 736 (Ga. Ct. App. 1990). · cites it 4× “Under the rationale advanced by the dissent, a driver could be parked in complete compliance with these statutes, as well as with all applicable departmental regulations and local ordinances governing the parking of motor vehicles at the location in question, see generally OCGA…”
Nash v. Pierce, 519 S.E.2d 462 (Ga. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 2× “But the court concluded that OCGA § 36-6-1 (a), which provides that no other county officer can also be county treasurer, contradicted the local act and as a general law prevailed.”
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