TITLE 45 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
- CHAPTER 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 45-1-1 - Employees of state hospitals and certain state institutions authorized to make purchases of goods and services; limitations
- § 45-1-2 - Actions by or against public officers who have left office
- § 45-1-3 - Display or sale of motor vehicle tag or any type of sign purporting that owner serves on Governor's staff
- § 45-1-4 - Complaints or information from public employees as to fraud, waste, and abuse in state programs and operations
- § 45-1-5 - Purging of personnel records of terminated employee
- § 45-1-6 - (For effective date, see note.) Gifts to employees by vendors; disclosure; reports
- CHAPTER 2 - ELIGIBILITY AND QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE
- CHAPTER 3 - OFFICIAL OATHS AND COMMISSIONS
- CHAPTER 4 - OFFICIAL BONDS
- § 45-4-1 - Bonds to be payable to Governor and conditioned upon faithful discharge of duties
- § 45-4-10 - Officer failing to comply with requisition of Governor to be removed from office
- § 45-4-11 - Blanket bonds covering two or more political subdivisions, officers authorized; amount and coverage period; recording; entities
- § 45-4-12 - Approval to be endorsed on bonds; bonds not to be filed until approved
- § 45-4-13 - Approval, filing, and recording of bonds of court clerks, magistrates, sheriffs, coroners, surveyors, treasurers, and tax collectors
- § 45-4-14 - Time for filing bonds
- § 45-4-15 - Filing time to be endorsed on bonds
- § 45-4-16 - Manner in which power of attorney to be attested and filed where bond signed by attorney in fact
- § 45-4-17 - Probate court judge to certify to Governor taking of oaths and giving of bonds
- § 45-4-18 - Certification of failure of officer to make and file bond
- § 45-4-19 - Notice to Attorney General of failure of officer to file bond
- § 45-4-2 - Deputies to give bond to principals; conditions, amount, and recording same as bonds of principals
- § 45-4-20 - Nonconforming bond to stand in place of official bond though not approved and filed
- § 45-4-21 - Effect of failure of officer to mark bond or give required notice
- § 45-4-22 - Performance by public officer of official act before bond approved and filed
- § 45-4-23 - Places for keeping bonds and copies of bonds
- § 45-4-24 - Bond obligations of principal and surety; conditions required for existence of cause of action on bond
- § 45-4-25 - Actions on bonds of public officers authorized; name in which action to be brought; jurisdiction
- § 45-4-26 - Institution of action on deputy's bond
- § 45-4-27 - Effect of recovery on bond upon subsequent proceedings thereupon
- § 45-4-28 - Officer liable when bond penalty exhausted or invalid and when acting without bond
- § 45-4-29 - Measure of damages in actions on official bonds
- § 45-4-3 - Return of bonds to specified officers; actions on bonds
- § 45-4-30 - Applicability of chapter
- § 45-4-4 - Bonds of officers commissioned by Governor to be prepared by office of Governor
- § 45-4-5 - Bonds to have sureties; number and qualifications of sureties generally
- § 45-4-6 - Corporate sureties authorized
- § 45-4-7 - County officials required to have corporate surety on bond; county to pay premiums
- § 45-4-8 - Attorney at law or county officer not to be surety
- § 45-4-9 - Governor to require new bond and surety when surety relieved or insufficient
- CHAPTER 5 - VACATION OF OFFICE
- § 45-5-1 - When offices deemed vacated; filling vacancy; notice; appeal
- § 45-5-2 - Office to be vacated immediately upon final conviction of felony; filling of vacancy
- § 45-5-3 - Election or appointment of successor to fill unexpired terms
- § 45-5-3.1 - Authority to fill vacancy absent quorum; appointment by Governor to fill vacancy
- § 45-5-4 - Continuation in office of appointee during succeeding term
- § 45-5-5 - To whom resignations to be made
- § 45-5-6 - Public official investigated by special commission upon indictment; gubernatorial review if commission recommends suspension; suspension; reinstatement; replacement officer
- § 45-5-6.1 - Suspension and vacation of office of public officials convicted of felonies
- § 45-5-6.2 - Suspension of "authority officials" upon indictment for felony offense; continued compensation; replacement officials
- § 45-5-7 - Hearing of complaints against budget unit employees and proceedings thereupon; effect on tenure
- CHAPTER 5A - TEMPORARY DISABILITIES OF ELECTED CONSTITUTIONAL EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
- § 45-5A-1 - Certification of temporary disability by Supreme Court
- § 45-5A-2 - Lieutenant Governor exercising powers and duties of Governor during temporary disability
- § 45-5A-3 - President Pro Tempore of the Senate exercising powers and duties of Lieutenant Governor during temporary disability
- § 45-5A-4 - Governor's appointment of persons to perform duties of other officers during temporary disability
- § 45-5A-5 - Supreme Court to determine when temporary disability has ended; resumption of duties upon termination of temporary disability
- § 45-5A-6 - Officer under temporary disability to receive compensation during disability
- CHAPTER 6 - POWERS AND DUTIES GENERALLY
- § 45-6-1 - "Books, papers, and other office property" defined
- § 45-6-10 - Duty of incumbent to deliver office property to successor -- Hearing on show cause order; arrest of person who fails to comply; search for and seizure of office property
- § 45-6-11 - Duty of incumbent to deliver office property to successor -- Proceedings by successor against person refusing to deliver office property
- § 45-6-12 - Duty of incumbent to deliver office property to successor -- Director of Division of Archives and History to act as agent when office abolished or no successor appointed
- § 45-6-13 - Duty of incumbent to deliver office property to successor -- Retiring officers liable for costs of office property upon failure to deliver
- § 45-6-14 - Duty of incumbent to deliver office property to successor -- Failure of officer to deliver office property
- § 45-6-2 - Fiscal year for all state government units; duty of officers to keep accounts in accordance with fiscal year generally
- § 45-6-3 - Official reports to conform with fiscal year
- § 45-6-4 - Mailing of annual reports to General Assembly members
- § 45-6-5 - Source of powers of public officers generally; public not estopped by acts of officer exercising unconferred power
- § 45-6-6 - Office property kept by officers subject to inspection by citizens
- § 45-6-7 - Duty of incumbent to deliver office property to successor -- Generally
- § 45-6-8 - Duty of incumbent to deliver office property to successor -- Duties of retiring judicial or ministerial officers or state's attorneys
- § 45-6-9 - Duty of incumbent to deliver office property to successor -- Person in possession to deliver office property when incumbent deceased or cannot be found
- CHAPTER 7 - SALARIES AND FEES
- CHAPTER 8 - ACCOUNTING FOR PUBLIC FUNDS
- § 45-8-1 - Definitions
- § 45-8-10 - Deposit of funds in banks or depositories -- Requirement generally
- § 45-8-11 - Deposit of funds in banks or depositories -- Authority of officers holding public funds to determine amounts to be deposited; waiver of requirement for depository to give security
- § 45-8-12 - Deposit of funds in banks or depositories -- Depository to give bond; pledge of securities in lieu of bond; acceptance of federal insurance as security; combination of securities; aggreg
- § 45-8-13 - Deposit of funds in banks or depositories -- Deposit of securities by banks or depositories; contract as to interest or compensation
- § 45-8-13.1 - Depositories using pooled method of securing deposits of public funds; qualifications; rights and responsibilities of state treasurer
- § 45-8-14 - Depositories for county and school district moneys
- § 45-8-15 - Deposit of funds in banks or depositories -- Lien in favor of public body on bank assets; deposit as trust fund
- § 45-8-16 - Deposit of funds in banks or depositories -- Deposits showing officer's official title deemed public funds
- § 45-8-17 - Deposit of funds in banks or depositories -- Liability of public authorities or members thereof for official actions
- § 45-8-18 - Investment of surplus funds in war bonds or other obligations by treasurer of governmental entity
- § 45-8-19 - Jurisdiction to cite defaulting officers, depositories, sureties, for accounting and to issue execution
- § 45-8-2 - Bonds -- Requirement of officers holding state funds; requirement of additional bond or security; declaring office vacant upon failure to give additional security; reduction of bonds; sub
- § 45-8-20 - Citation of officer, bank, or depository to show cause; service of notice
- § 45-8-21 - Right of interested citizen, taxpayer, or public body to appear at hearing
- § 45-8-22 - Cited official, bank, or depository to file statement of accounts; preparation of statement by citing official or authority; entry of judgment or order in nature of judgment; settling ac
- § 45-8-23 - Authority to issue subpoenas; punishment for contempt for refusal to obey
- § 45-8-24 - Joinder of parties in proceedings for accounting; power of authorities to determine liability
- § 45-8-25 - Issuance of execution against defaulting officer, bank, depository, or surety; enforcement; proceedings to arrest enforcement; burden of proof at trial; parties; effect of admission of c
- § 45-8-26 - Action by bond obligee before citation or execution
- § 45-8-27 - Procedure for accounting where officer succeeds himself
- § 45-8-28 - Personal representative of insane or deceased officer as party to proceedings
- § 45-8-29 - Effect of judgment or execution as lien; transfer of judgment or execution; enforcement by transferee; effect of sale or transfer of assets by bank to innocent purchaser for value
- § 45-8-3 - Bonds -- Requirement of officers holding other than state funds; increase, reduction, or discharge of bonds
- § 45-8-30 - Release of property of county officers from state lien -- Authorization
- § 45-8-31 - Release of property of county officers from state lien -- Procedure generally
- § 45-8-32 - Release of property of county officers from state lien -- Proposed sale or loan to be consummated within 60 days from authorization of release
- § 45-8-33 - Effect of chapter upon liability of officers to private persons
- § 45-8-4 - Bonds -- Declaring office vacant upon officer's failure to give additional security
- § 45-8-5 - Bonds -- Fixing of amount and approval
- § 45-8-6 - Bonds -- Liability of new or additional bond for defaults occurring prior to and subsequent to effective date
- § 45-8-7 - Bonds -- Interest against principal and surety upon breach of bond; additional penalty for bad faith; attorneys' fees
- § 45-8-8 - Bonds -- When principal and surety not liable
- § 45-8-9 - Bonds -- Limitation of actions on bonds
- CHAPTER 9 - INSURING AND INDEMNIFICATION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
- ARTICLE 1 - STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
- ARTICLE 2 - MEMBERS OF GOVERNING BODIES OF MUNICIPALITIES, COUNTIES, AND OTHER PUBLIC BODIES
- ARTICLE 3 - EMPLOYEES OPERATING STATE MOTOR VEHICLES
- ARTICLE 4 - INDEMNIFICATION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES GENERALLY
- ARTICLE 4A - INDEMNIFICATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS AND EMPLOYEES
- ARTICLE 5 - LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, FIREMEN, PRISON GUARDS, AND PUBLICLY EMPLOYED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS
- ARTICLE 5A - INDEMNIFICATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS AND EMPLOYEES
- ARTICLE 6 - CONSOLIDATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION CLAIM MATTERS UNDER COMMISSIONER OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
- CHAPTER 10 - CODES OF ETHICS AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
- CHAPTER 11 - MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES CONCERNING PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
- § 45-11-1 - Offenses involving public records, documents, and other items
- § 45-11-10 - Coercion of other officer or employee to give anything of value for political purposes
- § 45-11-2 - Selling office or dividing fees
- § 45-11-3 - Assault under color of office
- § 45-11-4 - Unprofessional conduct; misdemeanor; applicability; indictment
- § 45-11-5 - Extortion generally
- § 45-11-6 - Demanding more than legal fees for advertising
- § 45-11-7 - Retaining compensation for legal advertisements
- § 45-11-8 - Engaging in bail bond business
- § 45-11-9 - Discrimination against optometrists or physicians in suggestions for visual care
- CHAPTER 12 - GOVERNOR
- CHAPTER 13 - SECRETARY OF STATE
- ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- ARTICLE 2 - POWERS AND DUTIES GENERALLY
- ARTICLE 3 - DIVISION OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
- ARTICLE 3A - HISTORICAL RECORDS ADVISORY BOARD
- ARTICLE 3B - COMMISSION ON GEORGIA HISTORY AND HISTORICAL TOURISM
- ARTICLE 4 - GEORGIA CAPITOL MUSEUM
- ARTICLE 5 - DISPOSITION OF SURPLUS STATE BOOKS
- CHAPTER 14 - COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE
- CHAPTER 15 - ATTORNEY GENERAL
- CHAPTER 16 - CORONERS
- CHAPTER 17 - NOTARIES PUBLIC
- CHAPTER 18 - EMPLOYEES' INSURANCE AND BENEFITS PLANS
- CHAPTER 19 - LABOR PRACTICES
- CHAPTER 20 - PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
- ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- ARTICLE 2 - LEAVES OF ABSENCE
- ARTICLE 3 - VOLUNTARY DEDUCTIONS FROM WAGES OR SALARIES OF STATE EMPLOYEES FOR BENEFIT OF CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS
- ARTICLE 4 - EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
- ARTICLE 5 - RANDOM DRUG TESTING OF EMPLOYEES IN HIGH-RISK JOBS
- ARTICLE 6 - DRUG TESTING FOR STATE EMPLOYMENT
- CHAPTER 21 - EMPLOYEES' SUGGESTION AND MERITORIOUS AWARDS PROGRAM
- § 45-21-1 - Definitions
- § 45-21-2 - Establishment of employees' suggestion and awards program; implementation
- § 45-21-3 - Preparation of rules
- § 45-21-4 - Employment of staff
- § 45-21-5 - Creation of agency committees; agency committees to review suggestions and report to commissioner
- § 45-21-6 - Further investigation of suggestions or ideas by commissioner; report of findings and recommendations; board to make final determination
- § 45-21-7 - Awards to employees
- § 45-21-8 - Costs to be borne by board and appointing authorities
- § 45-21-9 - Incentive payments not to be included in calculation of retirement benefits
- CHAPTER 22 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEE HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL PROTECTION AND RIGHT TO KNOW
- § 45-22-1 - Short title
- § 45-22-10 - Unlawful discharge, disciplining, or discrimination against employees
- § 45-22-11 - Filing of employee grievances; termination of contract by employer for violation of Code Section 45-22-4; ability of employers to dismiss or discipline employees; judicial review of gri
- § 45-22-12 - Sovereign immunity
- § 45-22-2 - Definitions
- § 45-22-3 - Labeling requirements
- § 45-22-4 - Responsibility of public contractors who introduce hazardous materials into workplace
- § 45-22-5 - Exclusions from chapter; exclusions from labeling requirements; dissemination of information
- § 45-22-6 - Assistance of Governor's Employment and Training Council in reviewing and preparing rules and regulations
- § 45-22-7 - Material safety data sheets; notice to employees; rights of employees
- § 45-22-8 - Information and training standards
- § 45-22-9 - Publication by employers of list of hazardous chemicals in workplace
- CHAPTER 23 - DRUG-FREE PUBLIC WORK FORCE
- § 45-23-1 - Short title
- § 45-23-2 - Legislative finding and declaration
- § 45-23-3 - Definitions
- § 45-23-4 - Suspension or termination of public employee convicted of drug offense
- § 45-23-5 - Ineligibility for public employment of person convicted of drug offense
- § 45-23-6 - Additional or more stringent sanctions authorized
- § 45-23-7 - Continuance of employment for drug user; requirements and procedure
- § 45-23-8 - Administrative procedures
- § 45-23-9 - Application of chapter
- CHAPTER 24 - GOVERNMENTAL REORGANIZATION AND TERMINATION FROM EMPLOYMENT REFORM
- § 45-24-1 - Short title
- § 45-24-2 - Definitions
- § 45-24-3 - State Personnel Oversight Commission
- § 45-24-4 - Commission to approve involuntary separation; compliance with Code Section 45-24-8 required for reorganization
- § 45-24-5 - Notice to commission prior to involuntary separation
- § 45-24-6 - Notice to chief executive officer of state departments; response required; proceedings when continued employment available; review of termination or separation
- § 45-24-7 - Authorization to proceed with separation
- § 45-24-8 - Proceedings for reorganization
- § 45-24-9 - Notice of involuntary separation; taxpayers' pension advocate; providing briefs; attendance at commission meetings