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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 28. GENERAL ASSEMBLY · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

28-1-7. Failure of officer to organize emergency session.

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

  1. If any officer of either branch of the General Assembly shall fail or refuse to perform any of his duties in completing the organization of an emergency session, as provided for in Article V, Section II, Paragraph VII(b) of the Constitution of Georgia, his office may, upon the majority vote of the membership of the branch, be declared vacant, as often as may be necessary, and his successor elected as provided by the rules of the General Assembly.

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. 1937-38, Ex. Sess., p. 190, § 4; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 54.

Cross references

Expulsion of members generally, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. IV, Para. VII.

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

Text read from t27-t30-(v22)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V22, 2018 edition, page 304; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 62359f240c92.