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

O.C.G.A. § 45-2-45 (2019)

Applicability of article

✓ 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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This article shall not apply to department heads, temporary employees, other categories of employees of the state as defined by the State Personnel Board, or to students in the University System of Georgia in the employ of the state, nor shall it apply to any present employee. As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘temporary employee’’ means a person whose period of employment is of short duration or is part time as defined by the State Personnel Board.

History

(Ga. L. 1956, p. 808, § 6; Ga. L. 1960, p. 189, § 4; Ga. L. 1962, p. 541, § 4; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1094, § 3.)

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Application to employees in the University System of Georgia. - The exemption of this section applies only to the heads of state departments and not the various subdivisions, subdepartments, and branches of departments of state government; therefore, as it applies to the department, the Regents of the

University System of Georgia, the exemption would only apply to the chancellor and not to presidents of the various units of the department, nor various administrative and academic departments and subdivisions thereof. 1963-65 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 598 (rendered prior to 1996 amendment).

CHAPTER 3 OFFICIAL OATHS AND COMMISSIONS Sec.

Article 1 Official Oaths Sec.

Oaths required in addition to oath of office and constitutional oath. Form and subscription of oath. Officer authorized to administer oaths; oaths to be written, subscribed, and dated. Filing of oaths - Generally. Filing of oaths - County officers. Filing of oaths - Endorsement of filing time. Oaths of deputies. Effect of failure to take and file oath generally. Entry into duties of office without oath. Effect of failure to take and file

oath upon validity of official acts.