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Title 42. PENAL INSTITUTIONS · Chapter 9. PARDONS AND PAROLES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

42-9-14. Removal of board members for cause.

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

  1. (a)

    As used in this Code section, the term “committee” or “removal committee” means the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and an appointee of the Governor who is not the Attorney General.#

  2. (b)

    The removal committee is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations pertaining to the removal for cause of members of the board.#

  3. (c)

    Rules and regulations promulgated by the committee may include, but are not restricted to, the procedures to be observed in removing members of the board for cause and determinations as to what conduct by a board member shall be cause for removal.#

  4. (d)

    The removal committee is not an agency within the meaning of paragraph (1) of Code Section 50-13-2, and Chapter 13 of Title 50, the “Georgia Administrative Procedure Act,” shall not be applicable to the removal committee.#

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. 1973, p. 727, §§ 1-4; Ga. L. 1983, p. 500, § 4; Ga. L. 1988, p. 426, § 1.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 1983, p. 500, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “It is the intent of this Act to implement certain changes required by Article IV, Section II of the Constitution of the State of Georgia.”

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