O.C.G.A. § 36-6-4 (2019)
When bond to be given; form and amount
Within 30 days after his election or appointment, the county treasurer shall give a bond payable to the county governing authority with securities approved by such authority, in a sum which in its judgment will be ample to protect the county from any loss.
History
Orig. Code 1863, § 523; Code 1868, § 587; Code 1873, § 549; Code 1882, § 549; Ga. L. 1889, p. 51, § 1; Civil
Code 1895, § 455; Civil Code 1910, § 571; Ga. L. 1918, p. 109, § 1; Code 1933, § 23-1005.
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Effect of approval of insufficient bond. - Approval of a bond of a county treasurer for a penalty much less than that required by this section does not relieve the county treasurer of the necessity of giving a bond in the amount of the statutory penalty, when cited to do so by the proper officer. Tarver v. Wooten, 147 Ga. 19, 92 S.E. 532 (1917). Effect of invalid Act purporting to
abolish office and fix bond. - Act purporting to abolish the office of treasurer of a county and to fix the amount of the bond of the clerk, which was later held invalid, is no authority for excusing that treasurer from giving a bond in the penal sum prescribed for bonds of county treasurers by this section. Tarver v. Wooten, 147 Ga. 19, 92 S.E. 532 (1917). Cited in Carter v. Veal, 42 Ga. App. 88,
155 S.E. 64 (1930); Hancock County v. Hancock Nat’l Bank, 67 F.2d 421 (5th Cir. 1933). RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, §§ 130 et seq.,
345 et seq., 358, 488, 489. C.J.S. - 20 C.J.S., Counties, § 160.