Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

20-2-62. Employment of county agents and home demonstration agents to carry on extension work.

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

Power is conferred upon the county tax levying authorities of the several counties, as well as the county boards of education, to carry on educational work for the promotion of the extension work in agriculture and home economics under the Act of Congress approved May 8, 1914 (7 U.S.C.A., Sections 341 to 348), and resolution of the General Assembly, under the date of August 14, 1914 (Ga. L. 1914, p. 1243), giving assent of the state to such Act of Congress, by employing county agricultural agents and home demonstration agents and supervising their work and paying therefor. The boards of education of the several counties may employ and pay county agents and home demonstration agents to carry on such extension work.

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

Ga. L. 1922, p. 82, § 2; Ga. L. 1923, p. 88, § 1; Code 1933, § 32-944.

Cross references

Cooperative Extension Service of University of Georgia, § 2-6-4 et seq. Authority of board of regents with regard to federal grants for agricultural extension work, § 20-3-38. Collection of county taxes for payment of county agricultural and home demonstration agents, § 48-5-220(10).

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