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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 3. LOCAL BOARDS OF EDUCATION

20-2-56. Nonpartisan elections for members of boards of education.

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

  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the General Assembly may provide by local law for the election in nonpartisan elections of candidates to fill the offices of members of boards of education and, in the case of independent school systems, for the election in nonpartisan elections of candidates to fill the offices of members of the boards of education of those independent school systems using the procedures established in Chapter 2 of Title 21, the “Georgia Election Code.”

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.

History

Code 1981, § 20-2-56, enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1279, § 6; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1027, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 3; Ga. L. 2001, p. 269, § 2; Ga. L. 2005, p. 60, § 20/HB 95.

Editor's notes

Former Code Section 20-2-56, pertaining to workshops for new members of county and other boards, was based on Ga. L. 1977, p. 711, § 1 and was repealed by Ga. L. 1985, p. 1657, § 2, effective July 1, 1986.

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For note on the 2001 amendment to this Code section, see 18 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 96 (2001).

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

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