O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-16-141 (2019)

Inventory required of state and county officers; entry of inventory into book

✓ 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 state and county officers on or before January 15 of each year shall make a complete inventory on oath of all the public property in their charge and shall enter the same in a book kept for that purpose.

History

Ga. L. 1882-83, p. 126, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 275; Civil Code 1910, § 310; Code 1933, § 91-801.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL No conveyance without specific authority. - Under former Code 1933, §§ 91-801 and 91-802 (see O.C.G.A. §§ 50-16-141 and 50-16-142), all state officers are required to make an inventory of all public property in the officers’ charge and to account for the property to the

proper authority succeeding such an officer; therefore, a public officer cannot convey state property from the state to another person unless such officer has been given specific authority by some Act or resolution of the General Assembly. 1945-47 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 545.