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title: O.C.G.A. § 45-8-3. Bonds — Requirement of officers holding other than state funds; increase, reduction, or discharge of bonds.
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# O.C.G.A. § 45-8-3. Bonds — Requirement of officers holding other than state funds; increase, reduction, or discharge of bonds.

All municipality or county authorities and all other proper authorities shall, as to collecting officers and officers to hold public funds other than those dealt with in Code Section 45-8-2, have the jurisdiction and authority to require bonds of such officers, of the same kind as is prescribed in Code Section 45-8-2, and shall have the same power and authority to require such officers to increase their bonds or the security thereon, to permit the reduction of such bonds, and to give discharge to existing bonds as to future liability upon new bonds being given, all in like manner as is set forth in Code Section 45-8-2.

## History

Ga. L. 1933, p. 78, § 3a; Code 1933, § 89-807.