Georgia General Assembly · Full text

HB 5: Decatur County; board of commissioners; change district residency requirements for candidates

Enrolled version, the latest LegiScan holds · Last action May 13, 2025 · Passed

The text as LegiScan holds it, read from the PDF the legislature publishes with its margin line numbers, running heads, and page footers removed. Line breaks are joined into paragraphs here; no word is changed.

Copy for LLM, View as markdown, and Send to AI use the Markdown version: this text, then the summaries under a heading that names them as ours. View raw is the text alone.

Back to the summary

House Bill 5 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE)

By: Representative Campbell of the 171st

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

To amend an Act relating to the board of commissioners of Decatur County, approved March 4, 1935 (Ga. L. 1935, p. 630), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 6, 2015 (Ga. L. 2015, p. 3718), so as to change the district residency requirements for candidates for the office of commissioner; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

An Act relating to the board of commissioners of Decatur County, approved March 4, 1935 (Ga. L. 1935, p. 630), as amended, particularly by an Act approved May 6, 2015 (Ga. L. 2015, p. 3718), is amended by revising Section 2 as follows: "SECTION 2.

All members of the board of commissioners shall not be less than 21 years of age and shall be qualified electors of Decatur County. Each of the commissioners shall have been a resident of his or her respective commission district for at least 12 months prior to the date of taking office. In the event that any member ceases to be a resident of his or her respective commission district during his or her term of office, a vacancy shall be created and shall be filled in the manner hereinafter provided. Each of the members shall be elected by the qualified voters of Decatur County residing within his or her respective commission district. In all elections conducted pursuant to this Act, each candidate shall designate, at the time of qualifying, the district from which he or she offers as a candidate. To be elected as a member of the board, a candidate must receive the highest number of votes cast for the seat he or she is seeking; and, at the same time, a candidate must receive a majority of the total votes cast for the election of a commissioner to that seat. In the event no candidate for a particular seat receives a majority of the votes for the seat he or she is seeking, a run-off election shall be conducted for that particular seat. All members shall be nominated and elected in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the O.C.G.A., the 'Georgia Election Code,' as now or hereafter amended."

SECTION 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.