--- title: O.C.G.A. § 2-7-8. Purchases and expenditures. collection: code id: 2-7-8 cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 2-7-8 (2025) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/2-7-8 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/2-7-8.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/2-7-8/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t1-t2-t3-(v3)-2019-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=6ea3b7a1_0#page=258 date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/2-7.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/2-7-7.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/2-7-9.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md version: the only printed version in_force: true current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly heading_path: AGRICULTURE / PLANT DISEASE, PEST CONTROL, AND PESTICIDES / GENERAL PROVISIONS --- # O.C.G.A. § 2-7-8. Purchases and expenditures. The Commissioner may purchase all necessary materials, supplies, office and field equipment, and other things and may make such other expenditures as may be essential and necessary in carrying out this article, within the limits of the amount appropriated by law. ## History Ga. L. 1937, p. 659, § 4.