O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-10-80 (2019)

Public officers prohibited from advancing, employing, or advocating the employment of family members

✓ 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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(a) A public officer, as defined in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of paragraph (22) of Code Section 21-5-3, is prohibited from advocating for or causing the advancement, appointment, employment, promotion, or transfer of a member of his or her family, as such term is defined in Code Section 21-5-3, to an office or position to become a public employee, as defined in paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of Code Section 45-1-4, that pays an annual salary of $10,000.00 or more or its equivalent. (b) Any person advanced, appointed, employed, promoted, or transferred in violation of this Code section shall not be entitled to any payment, salary, or benefits received for any position so illegally obtained; and any person who receives payment, salary, or benefits for a position obtained in violation of this Code section shall be required to reimburse the state for all amounts so received.

History

(Code 1981, § 45-10-80, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 859, § 25/HB 48; Ga. L. 2006, p. 72, § 45/SB 465.)

Annotations

Law reviews. - For article on 2005 enactment of this Code section, see 22 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 119 (2005).

PART 6 LEGISLATIVE ETHICS Editor’s notes. - The former part consisted of Code Sections 45-10-90 through 45-10-94, relating to the Joint Legislative Ethics Committee, and was based on Ga. L. 2005, p. 859, § 26/HB 48; Ga. L. 2010, p. 838, § 10/SB 388 and was repealed by Ga. L. 2010, p. 1173, § 29/SB 17, effective January 10, 2011. Ga. L. 2010, p. 1173, § 1/SB 17, not codified by the General Assembly, pro-

vides: ‘‘This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Act of 2010.’ ’’ Ga. L. 2010, p. 1173, § 30/SB 17, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that this Act applies to all reports filed on and after January 10, 2011.