O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 38-2-170 (2019)

Military appropriations; military fund created; use of military funds

✓ 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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The General Assembly shall appropriate from time to time a sufficient sum of money, based on estimates and recommendations made by the adjutant general and approved by the Governor, for the purpose of paying the expenses incident to carrying out this chapter. All money so appropriated by the General Assembly shall continue and be kept in the state treasury as a separate fund to be known as the ‘‘military fund.’’ None of the moneys placed in the military fund shall be converted into the general fund of the state treasury, and no part of the military fund shall be used for any purpose except as shall be authorized by law.

History

Ga. L. 1916, p. 158, § 3; Code 1933, § 86-901; Ga. L. 1951, p. 311, § 10; Ga. L. 1955, p. 10, § 62.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Military fund to be used for military purposes only. - Statute clearly provides that all moneys appropriated to the military fund shall be used for military purposes only, and does not provide

for the establishment of a canteen service. 1945-47 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 53. Lapse of appropriations. - Appropriations of state funds to the Department of Defense which are not spent or contrac-

tually committed in writing lapse at the end of the fiscal year notwithstanding the provision for a continuing ‘‘military fund’’

in O.C.G.A. § 38-2-170. 1994 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 94-22.