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

O.C.G.A. § 38-4-5 (2019)

Veterans Service Board - Meetings; place; purpose; called

✓ 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 Veterans Service Board shall meet once each month and at the meetings shall give attention to all things and matters properly coming under the jurisdiction of the board. The board may meet in the offices of the Department of Veterans Service or at any other location within the state where such board is conducting business pertaining to veterans. The meetings provided for in this Code section shall be for stated regular periods but shall not exceed more than two days in any one session. Called meetings of the board may be held by the chairman thereof or by the commissioner of veterans service.

MILITARY, EMERG. & VET. AFFAIRS

History

Ga. L. 1945, p. 319, § 2; Ga. L. 1956, p. 584, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1401, § 4; Ga. L. 1990, p. 371, § 1.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 1983, p. 1401, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly,

provided that: ‘‘It is the intent of this Act to implement certain changes required by Article IV, Section V, Paragraph I, subparagraph (b) of the Constitution of the State of Georgia.’’

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Site of regular meetings. - Regular meetings of the board may be held at a subdivision branch office. 1950-51 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 230.

Determination of compensation. - Compensation of the board must be determined by the General Assembly. 1954-56 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 635.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, §§ 5, 485 et seq.

C.J.S. - 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, §§ 374 et seq., 381 et seq.