Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 21. ELECTIONS · Chapter 2. ELECTIONS AND PRIMARIES GENERALLY · Article 2. SUPERVISORY BOARDS AND OFFICERS · Part 3. SUPERINTENDENTS

21-2-70.1. Municipal superintendents.

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(a)
The municipal superintendent shall conduct, in accordance with this chapter, all municipal elections held within his or her municipality.#
(b)
The municipal superintendent shall be a person or committee selected by the governing authority of the municipality in a public meeting, and such selection shall be recorded in the minutes of such meeting. The municipal superintendent shall receive compensation fixed and paid by the governing authority of the municipality from municipal funds. The appointment shall be made in a public meeting, and the appointment shall be recorded in the minutes of said meeting. In the event that a municipality fails to make an appointment, the city clerk shall serve as the municipal superintendent. A parent, spouse, child, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law of a candidate shall not be eligible to serve as a municipal superintendent in any primary or election in which such candidate’s name appears on the ballot.#

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, § 21-2-70.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 2001, p. 230, § 4; Ga. L. 2001, p. 240, § 3; Ga. L. 2003, p. 151, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 517, § 6; Ga. L. 2008, p. 781, § 4/HB 1112.

Law reviews

For survey article on local government law, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 225 (1982). For note on the 2001 amendment to this Code section, see 18 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 114 (2001). For article, “Local Government Law,” see 53 Mercer L. Rev. 389 (2001).

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