O.C.G.A. § 36-8-4 (2019)
Establishment of salaries; payment; tax levy
The county governing authority shall fix the salaries of the county police, which salaries, together with the expense of maintaining the police, shall be paid out of the county treasury. The county governing authority is authorized to levy such tax as may be necessary to pay such salaries and expenses over and above the sums for which it is otherwise authorized to levy a tax.
History
Ga. L. 1909, p. 156, § 2; Civil Code 1910, § 850; Ga. L. 1914, p. 142, § 2; Code 1933, § 23-1402.
Annotations
Cross references. - Authority of counties to exercise power of taxation, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. IX, Sec. IV, Paras. I-III.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Commission from still destruction unauthorized. - The ordinary (now judge of the probate court) is without authority to appoint a police officer under an agreement by which the police officer is to be paid for work done in enforcing the prohibition law by destroying stills, and for which the police officer is to be paid so much for each still destroyed, to be paid out of the funds derived by fines and forfeitures from the enforcement of the prohibition law. If such work or service is rendered under a contract which the ordi-
nary (now judge of the probate court) is not authorized to make, no implied obligation arises on the part of the county to pay for such services, even though the county receives the benefit. Eison v. Shirley, 165 Ga. 374, 141 S.E. 295 (1927). Receipt of salary no bar to action for share of fees. - Fact that officer making seizure of an automobile engaged in the illegal transportation of intoxicating liquors received a salary does not preclude the officer from receiving the officer’s part of fees provided by statute for
officers responsible for confiscation of such automobiles. Cloud v. DeKalb County, 70 Ga. App. 777, 29 S.E.2d 441 (1944).
Cited in Levine v. Perry, 204 Ga. 323, 49 S.E.2d 820 (1948).
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 70 Am. Jur. 2d, Sheriffs, Police, and Constables, § 41 et seq.