O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-19-7 (2019)

Mileage and actual travel expenses for state officials and employees; reimbursement

✓ 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 officers, officials, and employees of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government shall be reimbursed for mileage at the same mileage rate established by the United States General Services Administration for federal employees pursuant to Federal Travel Regulation Amendment 2005-01 as of July 1, 2005, or subsequently amended, as traveling expense when traveling in the service of the state or any agency thereof by personal motor vehicle and, in

addition to mileage, shall be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred by reason of tolls and parking fees.

History

Ga. L. 1933, p. 106, § 3; Code 1933, § 40-2002; Ga. L. 1950, p. 224, § 1; Ga. L. 1960, p. 79, § 1; Ga. L. 1962, p. 710, § 1; Ga. L. 1970, p. 118, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 1125, § 2; Ga. L. 1975, p. 816, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1786, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1894, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 350, § 1; Ga.

L. 1981, p. 856, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 356, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 791, § 1/HB 474; Ga. L. 2000, p. 486, § 3; Ga. L. 2005, p. ES5, § 1/SB 1EX.

Annotations

Cross references. - Reimbursement of expenses of state officials generally, § 45-7-20 et seq.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Provisions of this section pertaining to travel allowance are inapplicable to expenditures by local school systems. 1974 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 74-67. Employees of Department of Hu-

man Resources. - Only mileage allowance permitted to employees of Department of Human Resources is set forth in this section. 1976 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 76-97.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 288.

C.J.S. - 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 386 et seq.