O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-4-9 (2019)

New bond and surety when surety relieved or insufficient

✓ 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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The Governor shall require a new surety and bond for the performance of any public duty by any officer under this chapter when, in the Governor’s discretion: (1) The surety gives written notice to the Governor of his desire to be relieved from future liability for good cause stated and sworn to; or (2) The surety becomes insufficient, based upon satisfactory evidence. (Laws 1845, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 1036; Code 1863, § 164; Code 1868, § 159; Code 1873, § 170; Code 1882, § 170; Civil Code 1895, § 266; Civil Code 1910, § 301; Code 1933, § 89-424.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 368.

C.J.S. - 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, §§ 73, 74.