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# O.C.G.A. § 50-16-61. General supervision and office assignment.

The Governor shall have general supervision over all property of the state with power to make all necessary regulations for the protection thereof, when not otherwise provided for. He shall assign rooms in the capitol to all officers who are required to hold their offices there and, in the absence of any legislative provision, designate the purpose to which other rooms shall be applied.

## History

Orig. Code 1863, § 71; Code 1868, § 65; Code 1873, § 62; Code 1882, § 62; Civil Code 1895, § 123; Civil Code 1910, § 146; Code 1933, § 91-402.

## Cross References

Authority of Legislative Services Committee with regard to assignment of space in state capitol, § 28-4-2.