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2018 Georgia Code 50-4-1 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 50-4-1 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 50-4-1

TITLE 50 STATE GOVERNMENT

Section 4. Organization of Executive Branch Generally, 50-4-1 through 50-4-7.

ARTICLE 6 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY MONUMENT

50-4-1. Definitions.

Unless otherwise required by context, as used in this Code when related to the executive branch of state government, the term:

  1. "Administrative" means those functions related to the specific implementation of general policies.
  2. "Agency" means any officer, department, division, bureau, board, commission, or agency in the executive branch of state government.
  3. "Constitution" means the Constitution of Georgia.
  4. "Department" means a principal, functional, and administrative entity and its divisions within the executive branch of state government provided for by the "Executive Reorganization Act of 1972" or by any subsequent enactment except when used in connection with the name of an agency existing before July 1, 1972.
  5. "Department head" means a director, commission, board, commissioner, or constitutional officer or such other official in charge of a department.
  6. "Function" means a duty, power, or program exercised by or assigned to an agency, whether or not specifically provided for by law, including budgeted positions and personnel relating to the performance of such function unless otherwise provided.
  7. "Policy" or "policy making" means those functions related to establishing the general direction which programs of an agency shall take.
  8. "Unit" means an internal subdivision of an agency, created by statute or by administrative action, including a division, bureau, section, or department or an agency assigned to a department for administrative purposes only as provided in Code Section 50-4-3.

(Ga. L. 1972, p. 1015, § 1C; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 66.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Bliss v. Cobb County, 599 F. Supp. 233 (N.D. Ga. 1984); Phillips v. Hawthorne, 269 Ga. 9, 494 S.E.2d 656 (1998).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 1 et seq. 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, §§ 1, 64.

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 50-4-1

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Phillips v. Hawthorne, 269 Ga. 9 (Ga. 1998).

Cited 1 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jan 26, 1998 | 494 S.E.2d 656, 98 Fulton County D. Rep. 325

...a closed meeting in which evidence was taken and arguments made concerning the abolition of the Auburn City Police Department; in violation of Title 50, Chapter 14, of The Official Code of Georgia Annotated [the Open and *11Public Meetings Act, OCGA § 50-4-1 et seq.].2 In determining the legal sufficiency of the facts upon which the recall grounds are based, the superior court should assume the facts alleged to be true, consider whether the facts allege misconduct which constitutes a legally s...