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title: O.C.G.A. § 36-30-6. Voting upon questions by interested councilmembers.
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# O.C.G.A. § 36-30-6. Voting upon questions by interested councilmembers.

It is improper and illegal for a member of a municipal council to vote upon any question brought before the council in which he is personally interested.

## History

Civil Code 1895, § 751; Civil Code 1910, § 900; Code 1933, § 69-204.

## Law Reviews

For article, “Cities and Towns in Georgia: A Distinction with a Difference?,” see 14 Mercer L. Rev. 385 (1963).

For article surveying important general legal principles of municipal and county government purchasing and contracting in Georgia, see 16 Mercer L. Rev. 371 (1965).

For article discussing the impropriety of municipal employees representing their own self-interests in public matters, specifically relating to municipal purchasing, see 5 Ga. St. B.J. 309 (1969).

For article discussing the effect of the general criminal statute on self-interest and municipal purchasing on the general statute on votes by municipal councilmen in matters of personal interest and on local statutory law, see 7 Ga. St. B.J. 431 (1971).

## History of Code Section.

This Code section is derived from the decision in Daly v. Georgia S. & F.R.R., 80 Ga. 793, 7 S.E. 146 (1888).