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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 3. COUNTY BOARDS OF HEALTH

31-3-8. Records.

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

  1. The county board of health shall record and preserve true and correct minutes of its proceedings in a book kept for that purpose and shall maintain or cause to be maintained, unless maintained by the governing authority of the county, accurate double entry accounting records including but not limited to:

  2. (1)

    Prenumbered duplicates of receipts issued for funds received showing the source of such funds; and#

  3. (2)

    Records and financial reports including a general ledger maintained in accordance with generally accepted principles of accounting and in accordance with such standards as may be prescribed by the governing authority of the county and the department. Such records shall show all receipts and disbursements, identifying each item and, in the case of disbursements, listing to whom paid, dates, amounts, and objects of expenditure. All accounting records shall be subject to any audits made of general county financial operations and shall be made available for the purpose of such audits.#

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 1933, § 88-207, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.

Cross references

Audit of county or municipal corporation or units thereof, § 36-60-8.

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

Text read from t31-(v23)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V23, 2025 edition, page 156; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.