O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 49-4-17 (2019)

Funding costs of assistance and administration; county participation not required

✓ 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 cost of administration and the cost of public assistance provided under any of the categories of public assistance authorized under Code Section 49-4-3 shall be met from such funds as shall be made available therefor from state and federal appropriations. No county shall be required to participate in the cost of such public assistance or in the cost of the administration thereof.

History

Ga. L. 1965, p. 385, § 17; Ga. L. 1970, p. 451, § 1.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FICA contributions considered as costs of administration. - For purposes of this section, social security (FICA) employer contributions can be con-

sidered as “costs of administration” of public assistance. 1971 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 71-36.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1989–1995 · leading case: Bendiburg v. Dempsey, 707 F. Supp. 1318 (N.D. Ga. 1989).

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Bendiburg v. Dempsey, 707 F. Supp. 1318 (N.D. Ga. 1989). · cites it 2× “” 20 O.C.G.A. § 49-4-17. From this, the court concludes that most if not all of the funding for the county departments is derived from sources other than the counties themselves.”

Floyd Cnty. Grand Jury v. Dep't of Fam. & Child. Servs., 463 S.E.2d 519 (Ga. Ct. App. 1995). · cites it 2× “The appellant contends that Floyd County’s contribution of $125,000 per year to DFACS for “administration, emergency relief and child welfare” is indicative of DFACS being a “county” office. No county, however, is statutorily required to participate in “the cost of such public…”

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