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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 45. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES · Chapter 6. POWERS AND DUTIES GENERALLY

45-6-7. Duty of incumbent to deliver office property to successor — Generally.

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

  1. When any office is vacated, it is the duty of the incumbent, when requested, to deliver all books, papers, and other office property to his qualified successor.

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, § 166; Code 1868, § 161; Code 1873, § 172; Code 1882, § 172; Civil Code 1895, § 269; Civil Code 1910, § 304; Code 1933, § 89-602.

Cross references

Provision in quo warranto judgment for delivery to proper officer of all books and papers belonging to the public office in question, § 9-6-66.

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Text read from t45-(v33)-2016-pdf.pdf, Volume V33, 2016 edition, page 109; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7dfce9a0fd88.