36-6-1. Qualifications for office; election; commission; term; abolishment and fixing compensation of office by General Assembly.

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(a)
No other conditions of eligibility are required for the office of county treasurer than those which apply to all other county officers, provided that no other county officer can also be county treasurer.#
(b)
County treasurers shall be elected and commissioned in the same manner and at the same time as clerks of the superior courts and shall hold their offices for terms of four years. The General Assembly, by local law, may abolish the office of county treasurer in any county and may fix the compensation of the county treasurer.#

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 520; Code 1868, § 584; Code 1873, § 546; Code 1882, § 546; Civil Code 1895, § 452; Civil Code 1910, § 568; Code 1933, § 23-1002; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1212, § 1.

Cross references

Eligibility for county office, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. IX, Sec. I, Para. III. Eligibility for public office generally, § 45-2-1 et seq.

Law reviews

For annual survey article on local government law, see 52 Mercer L. Rev. 341 (2000).

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