O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-12-87 (2019)

Requirement of authorization of payments and obligation; liability of persons authorizing payments or receiving payments

✓ 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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No payment shall be made and no obligation shall be incurred against any appropriation unless such payment or obligation has been authorized as provided in this part. Every official authorizing payments in violation of this part, or taking part therein, and every person receiving such payment, or any part thereof, shall be jointly and severally liable to the state for the full amount so paid or received.

History

(Code 1933, § 40-419, enacted by Ga. L. 1962, p. 17, § 1.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS This section prohibits deficit financing. Briarcliff Haven, Inc. v. Department of Human Resources, 403 F. Supp. 1355 (N.D. Ga. 1975). Cited in Busbee v. Georgia Conference,

Am. Ass’n of Univ. Professors, 235 Ga. 752, 221 S.E.2d 437 (1975); Georgia Ass’n of Educators v. Harris, 403 F. Supp. 961 (N.D. Ga. 1975).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 80. C.J.S. - 81A C.J.S., States, § 398.