O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-6-24 (2019)

Removal of treasurer

✓ 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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County treasurers may be removed from office in the same manner as clerks of the superior courts may be removed.

History

Laws 1821, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 211; Laws 1838, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 215; Code 1863, § 518; Code 1868, § 582; Code 1873, § 544; Code

1882, § 544; Civil Code 1895, § 450; Civil Code 1910, § 566; Code 1933, § 23-1026.

Annotations

Cross references. - Removal of clerks of superior courts, § 15-6-82.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Finding of incapacity and removal. - Judge of the superior court can remove the current county treasurer from office

after a jury finding of incapacity, pursuant to O.C.G.A. §§ 15-6-82 and 36-6-24. 1985 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U85-30.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 165 et seq. C.J.S. - 20 C.J.S., Counties, § 168 et

seq. 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 227 et seq.