O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-17-30 (2019)

Liability of public officers and employees

✓ 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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Any public officer or employee and any surety on his official bond or any other person participating in any direct or indirect impairment of any fund established in connection with public debt shall be liable in any action brought by the Attorney General in the name of the state, or by any taxpayer of the state, or by the holder of any evidence of indebtedness payable in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, out of such fund to restore to such fund all diversions therefrom.

History

Ga. L. 1973, p. 750, § 9.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 346.

C.J.S. - 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 363 et seq.

ARTICLE 3 STATE DEPOSITORIES

Cross references. - Administration of deposits of insurers, T. 33, C. 12. Depositing of state funds in state depositories, § 45-8-10 et seq.

Editor’s notes. - For application of this article in 2020, see Executive Order 03.31.20.02.