O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-4-23 (2019)

Places for keeping bonds

✓ 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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All bonds taken from public officers shall be kept in the places specified by law and copies thereof shall be furnished to any person desiring them.

History

(Orig. Code 1863, § 14; Code 1868, § 12; Code 1873, § 12; Code 1882, § 12; Civil Code 1895, § 12; Civil Code 1910, § 12; Code 1933, § 89-407.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Provisions applicable only to certain public officers. - The provisions embraced in this section were intended to be applicable only to the public officers of this state who are required by general law to give bonds for the faithful performance of duties the officers owe to the public at large. National Sur. Co. v. Seymour, 177 Ga. 735, 171 S.E. 380 (1933); Collins v. United States Fid. & Guar. Co., 72 Ga. App. 875, 35 S.E.2d 474 (1945). No application to bonded officer of municipality. - This section does not

have any application whatever to a bonded officer of a municipality who is required, by special legislation relating to that municipality alone, to give such a bond as the mayor and council may deem necessary to the proper protection of the city itself. Collins v. United States Fid. & Guar. Co., 72 Ga. App. 875, 35 S.E.2d 474 (1945). Cited in Talmadge v. McDonald, 44 Ga. App. 728, 162 S.E. 856 (1932); Matthews v. Rowell, 49 Ga. App. 673, 176 S.E. 802 (1934).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 130.

C.J.S. - 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 473.