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

O.C.G.A. § 36-6-20 (2019)

Delivery of money, books, papers, and property to successor

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Upon the resignation, expiration of the term, or removal from office of the county treasurer, he, or, if he is dead, his personal representative, must state his accounts and deliver all the money, books, papers, and property of the county to his successor, as do other officers. His successor must report the same immediately to the county governing authority.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 541; Code 1868, § 605; Code 1873, § 564; Code

1882, § 564; Civil Code 1895, § 470; Civil Code 1910, § 586; Code 1933, § 23-1022.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Provisions of former Civil Code 1910, §§ 586 and 587 (see now O.C.G.A. §§ 36-6-20 and 36-6-21) were not applicable to annual accounting and settle-

ment made by the tax collector with the county commissioners. Read v. Glynn County, 145 Ga. 881, 90 S.E. 60 (1916).