O.C.G.A.

50-5A-8 (2019)

State government expenses to be paid by Governor’s warrant drawn on appropriations

✓ 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 costs and expenses of the maintenance and support of every department, commission, bureau, and other branch or agency of the state government shall be paid out of funds in the state treasury by warrant of the Governor drawn on appropriations duly made by the General Assembly.

History

Ga. L. 1927, p. 311, § 2; Code 1933, § 40-1102; Code 1981, § 50-5-9; Code 1981, § 50-5A-8, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 2; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 1/SB 296.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 1/SB 296, effective July 1, 2010, reenacted this Code section without change.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Comptroller General is not authorized to draw warrant upon director.

Irons v. Harrison, 185 Ga. 244, 194 S.E. 749, 1937 Ga. LEXIS 733 (1937).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, §§ 252 et seq., 346. 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 66.

C.J.S. 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 389 et seq., 407.