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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 50. STATE GOVERNMENT · Chapter 5B. STATE ACCOUNTING OFFICE · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

50-5B-1. Office created; appointment of state accounting officer.

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

  1. (a)

    The State Accounting Office is created and shall be administered by the state accounting officer.#

  2. (b)

    The state accounting officer shall be appointed by the Governor and shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor.#

  3. (c)

    Beginning July 1, 2005, the state accounting officer shall receive an annual salary to be set by the Governor. The state accounting officer shall also be reimbursed for all actual and necessary expenses incurred by him or her in carrying out his or her official duties.#

  4. (d)

    The state accounting officer shall be required to take and subscribe before the Governor an oath to discharge faithfully and impartially the duties of such office, which oath shall be in addition to the oath required of all civil officers.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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

Code 1981, § 50-5B-1, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 694, § 1/HB 293.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t49-t50-ch1-12-(v38)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V38, 2023 edition, page 623; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 b1a50b0e3917.