Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT · Chapter 5. ORGANIZATION OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT · Article 2. COUNTY GOVERNING AUTHORITIES

36-5-25. Salary of county commissioner in county administered by single commissioner.

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

(a)
In every county of this state in which the county government is administered by a single county commissioner, such county commissioner shall be entitled to receive a minimum annual salary equal in amount to the minimum annual salary provided for the sheriff of any such county pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) of Code Section 15-16-20; provided, however, that a local law may provide for a greater annual salary than such minimum salary or may provide an expense allowance in addition to such minimum salary or in addition to such greater salary; provided, further, that any such county commissioner may by resolution elect to receive a salary of lesser amount which is provided by a local law.#
(b)
The provisions of subsection (a) of this Code section shall not affect any automobile allowance provided for any such county commissioner pursuant to local law.#

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.

Code 1981, § 36-5-25, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 347, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 237, § 2; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1038, § 2.

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