45-4-7. County officials required to have corporate surety on bond; county to pay premiums.

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

All county officials who are required to give an official bond shall make bond signed by some surety or guaranty company authorized to do business in this state. The premiums due on all such bonds must be paid by the county fiscal authorities out of county funds, and it shall be mandatory upon the county fiscal authorities in every county in the state to pay the premiums due on all such bonds out of county funds. This Code section shall not apply to county school superintendents’ bonds.

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.

Ga. L. 1947, p. 1543, § 1; Ga. L. 1949, p. 1190, § 1; Ga. L. 1951, p. 741, § 1.

For article on bond liability and righting the wrongs of Georgia local government officers, see 13 Ga. L. Rev. 747 (1979).

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Text read from t45-(v33)-2016-pdf.pdf, Volume V33, 2016 edition, pages 59 to 60; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7dfce9a0fd88.