O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-12-6 (2019)

Executive office; Governor’s residence

✓ 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 executive office of the Governor shall be in the capitol. If from any cause there is no capitol or if it is abandoned, then the executive office shall be at such place at the seat of government as the Governor may direct, and not elsewhere, unless made necessary by invasion, insurrection, pestilence, or rebellion. The Governor shall reside at the state capital during his term of office.

History

(Orig. Code 1863, §§ 80, 81; Code 1868, §§ 74, 75; Code 1873, § 79; Code 1882, § 79; Civil Code 1895, § 143; Civil Code 1910, § 166; Code 1933, § 40-107.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS O.C.G.A. § 45-12-6 does not remove the Governor’s nonofficial residence or domicile to the seat of government. Sanders v. Harper, 220 Ga. 649, 141 S.E.2d 156 (1965).

Cited in Avery v. Bower, 170 Ga. 202, 152 S.E. 239 (1930).