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Title 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

36-1-13. Speculation by county officer prohibited.

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  1. Any public officer of any county in this state who buys up at a discount or in any manner speculates in what are known as “county orders,” “jury scrip,” or any other order or scrip which is to be paid out of any public fund of this state or of any county in this state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be removed from office.

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. 1878-79, p. 79, § 1; Code 1882, § 4562g; Penal Code 1895, § 277; Penal Code 1910, § 281; Code 1933, §§ 23-9909, 23-1610.

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