O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-12-59 (2019)

Governor’s messenger - Special messenger

✓ 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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Where there is no messenger or where the duty cannot be performed by the person acting as messenger, the Governor, if necessary, may employ some person, for a reasonable compensation, to perform any service which is the duty of a messenger.

History

(Orig. Code 1863, § 122; Code 1868, § 117; Code 1873, § 126; Code 1882, § 126; Civil Code 1895, § 146; Civil Code 1910, § 169; Code 1933, § 40-309.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 38 Am. Jur. 2d, Governor, § 5.

C.J.S. - 67 C.J.S., Officers, § 198. 81A C.J.S., States, § 240.