O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-4-2 (2019)

Deputy’s bond

✓ 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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Deputies shall give bonds with surety, payable to their principals, for their conduct as deputies, conditioned as and for the same amounts, unless otherwise provided by law, as their principals’ bonds. Such bonds shall be recorded in the same office and in the same manner as the bonds of the principals.

History

(Orig. Code 1863, § 157; Code 1868, § 152; Code 1873, § 163; Code 1882, § 163; Civil Code 1895, § 259; Civil Code 1910, § 294; Code 1933, § 89-426; Ga. L. 1982, p. 1779, §§ 2, 4.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Option of which bond to sue on. - One who is aggrieved by the official misconduct of a deputy sheriff may at that person’s option sue either on the sheriff ’s bond or on the deputy’s bond. Aldridge v.

Wooten, 68 Ga. App. 887, 24 S.E.2d 700 (1943). Cited in Drost v. Robinson, 194 Ga. 703, 22 S.E.2d 475 (1942); Warren v. Walton, 231 Ga. 495, 202 S.E.2d 405 (1973).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL A deputy sheriff should give bond in the same amount as principal. 1969 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 69-100. RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 473 et seq. ALR. - Liability of clerk of court,

county clerk or prothonotary, or surety on bond, for negligent or wrongful acts of deputies or assistants, 71 ALR2d 1140.