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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 21. ELECTIONS · Chapter 4. RECALL OF PUBLIC OFFICERS

21-4-14. Limitations on subsequent recall petitions following recall election.

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

  1. (a)

    After a recall petition and election, no further recall petition shall be filed against the same officer until at least six months have elapsed from the date of the previous recall election; and any other recall petitions against that officer outstanding on the date of the recall election shall be void.#

  2. (b)

    If the election superintendent finds that a recall petition is insufficient and fails to verify the same, no further application for a recall petition shall be filed against the same officer until at least six months have elapsed from the date of the denial of such recall petition; provided, however, that such finding of insufficiency shall not bar the verification of any other recall petition against that officer which is available for signature or pending verification at the time of such finding of insufficiency.#

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, § 21-4-14, enacted by Ga. L. 1989, p. 1721, § 1.

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