O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 7-1-33 (2019)

Removal or suspension of commissioner

✓ 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 commissioner may be suspended or removed by the Governor whenever the Governor has in his judgment trustworthy information that the commissioner is insane or has absconded or grossly neglected his duties or is guilty of conduct plainly violative of his duties or the restrictions of Code Section 7-1-37.

History

Ga. L. 1919, p. 135, art. 2, § 7; Code

1933, § 13-307; Code 1933, § 41A-203, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 2 Am. Jur. 2d, Administrative Law, § 45 et seq.

C.J.S. 9 C.J.S., Banks and Banking, § 139.