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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT · Chapter 7. COUNTY SURVEYOR

36-7-5. Requirement of bond and oath.

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

  1. In addition to the oath required of all public officers, the county surveyor must take the following oath before entering on the duties of his office:

  2. “I, , swear that I will, to the best of my skill and knowledge, discharge the duties of surveyor of County and that I will not admeasure, survey, or lay out any land, in my capacity as such, or knowingly permit or cause it to be done, without a warrant first obtained for that purpose. So help me God.”

  3. At the same time, he shall give bond and security in the sum of $1,000.00.

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

Laws 1847, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 217.; Code 1863, § 546; Code 1868, § 610; Code 1873, § 569; Code 1882, § 569; Civil Code 1895, § 476; Civil Code 1910, § 594; Code 1933, § 23-1104.

Cross references

Oaths required of public officers, § 45-3-1 et seq.

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

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