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title: O.C.G.A. § 45-4-9. New bond and surety when surety relieved or insufficient.
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# O.C.G.A. § 45-4-9. New bond and surety when surety relieved or insufficient.

The Governor shall require a new surety and bond for the performance of any public duty by any officer under this chapter when, in the Governor’s discretion:

(1) The surety gives written notice to the Governor of his desire to be relieved from future liability for good cause stated and sworn to; or

(2) The surety becomes insufficient, based upon satisfactory evidence.

## History

Laws 1845, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 1036; Code 1863, § 164; Code 1868, § 159; Code 1873, § 170; Code 1882, § 170; Civil Code 1895, § 266; Civil Code 1910, § 301; Code 1933, § 89-424.