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# O.C.G.A. § 50-5A-1. Office created; appointment of state treasurer; personnel.

There is created the Office of the State Treasurer. The state treasurer shall be both appointed and removed by the State Depository Board and shall be in the unclassified service. The state treasurer shall hire the personnel for the office and shall supervise, direct, account for, organize, plan, and execute the functions vested in the office.

## History

Ga. L. 1972, p. 1015, § 408A; Code 1981, § 50-5-2; Code 1981, § 50-5A-1, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 2; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 1/SB 296.