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

O.C.G.A. § 45-12-1 (2019)

Election

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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 Governor shall be elected quadrennially in the manner provided by Article V of the Constitution of Georgia and shall be installed in office by the General Assembly. The General Assembly shall be the sole judge of his election and qualifications.

History

(Orig. Code 1863, § 1243; Code 1868, § 1324; Code 1873, § 1298; Code 1882, § 1298; Civil Code 1895, § 81; Civil Code 1910, § 95; Code 1933, § 40-101; Ga. L. 1949, p. 948, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 1015, § 201.)

Annotations

Law reviews. - For article reviewing the history of the Georgia legislature's involvement in the selection of a Governor, see 22 Mercer L. Rev. 1 (1971).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Wood v. Arnall, 189 Ga. 362, 6 S.E.2d 722 (1939); Stephens v. Reid, 189 Ga. 372, 6 S.E.2d 728 (1939).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d. - 38 Am. Jur. 2d, Governor, § 2.

C.J.S. - 67 C.J.S., Officers, §§ 46, 47. 81A C.J.S., States, § 171.