O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-3-16 (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 apply to the oaths of office of all public officers of this state unless the contrary is expressly provided.

History

(Orig. Code 1863, § 163; Code 1868, § 158; Code 1873, § 169; Code 1882, § 169; Civil Code 1895, § 265; Civil Code 1910, § 300; Code 1933, § 89-301.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Oath not required of municipal officers. - This section applies to officers commissioned by the Governor, and not to municipal officers not commissioned by

the Governor. Brewer v. Johnson, 184 Ga. 806, 193 S.E. 778 (1937). Unless required in city charter or other statute. - An oath by a municipal

officer is not necessary in the absence of any requirement thereof by the city charter or some other statute. Brewer v. Johnson, 184 Ga. 806, 193 S.E. 778 (1937). Cited in Maddox v. City of Atlanta, 49

Ga. App. 791, 171 S.E. 573 (1933); Matthews v. Rowell, 49 Ga. App. 673, 176 S.E. 802 (1934); Morgan v. Crow, 183 Ga. 147, 187 S.E. 840 (1936).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Oath required of members of county board of health. - Members of the county board of health were public officers within the meaning of former Code 1933, §§ 89-301 and 89-302 (see now

O.C.G.A. §§ 45-3-1 and § 45-3-16 and were required to take the oath as prescribed by Ga. L. 1961, p. 552, § 1 (see now O.C.G.A. § 45-3-11). 1963-65 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 432.

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