O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 48-5-124 (2019)

Liability of tax collectors, tax commissioners, and sureties; action on 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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(a) Tax collectors, tax commissioners, and their sureties are liable on their bonds for all penalties or forfeitures they may incur under the law and for all losses, damages, or expenses the state may sustain by reason of their conduct.

(b) An action may be brought on a tax collector’s or tax commissioner’s bond only when some emergency makes the action necessary.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 864; Code 1868, § 943; Code 1873, § 940; Code 1882, § 940; Civil Code 1895, § 972; Civil Code

1910, § 1239; Code 1933, § 92-4810; Code 1933, § 91A-1327, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 72 Am. Jur. 2d, State and Local Taxation, § 769 et seq. C.J.S. 20 C.J.S., Counties, § 211 et seq.

ALR. Personal liability of tax collector of state or its subdivision for illegal taxes collected, 14 A.L.R.2d 383.