O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 44-2-42 (2019)
Performance of clerk’s and sheriff’s duties by deputies; liability
✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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The duties required of the clerk and the sheriff by this article may be performed through their lawful deputies; but the clerk or the sheriff, as the case may be, shall be responsible for the acts of such deputies.
History
(Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 83; Code 1933, § 60-415; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 44.)