1-3-11. Local referenda on abolishing offices or shortening or lengthening term.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

No office to which a person has been elected shall be abolished nor the term of the office shortened or lengthened by local or special Act during the term for which such person was elected unless the same shall be approved by the people of the jurisdiction affected in a referendum on the question.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 1-3-11, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 685, § 1.

This Code section continues in effect a similar provision which was contained in Art. III, Sec. VII, Para. IX of the Constitution of Georgia of 1976.

For annual survey of local government law, see 58 Mercer L. Rev. 267 (2006).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t1-t2-t3-(v3)-2019-pdf.pdf, Volume V3, 2019 edition, page 150; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 206dab95f27a.