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title: Title 45, Chapter 2. Eligibility and Qualifications for Office
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date: 2025
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heading: ELIGIBILITY AND QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE
title_heading: PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
section_count: 18
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# Title 45, Chapter 2. Eligibility and Qualifications for Office

Title 45. Public Officers and Employees

18 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 45-2-1, Persons ineligible to hold civil office; vacation of office; validity of acts performed while in office, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-1.md
- 45-2-2, Person to hold only one county office; commissioned officer not to be deputy for another, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-2.md
- 45-2-3, Persons failing to obtain commissions ineligible for reelection, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-3.md
- 45-2-4, Officers to reside in state, discharge duties until successor commissioned, and have seal, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-4.md
- 45-2-5, Municipal or county governments not to require residence as condition of employment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-5.md
- 45-2-6, Municipal or county governments not to use residence as advantage or disadvantage in administering employee merit system, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-6.md
- 45-2-7, Employment of aliens — Prohibited generally; exceptions, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-7.md
- 45-2-8, Employment of aliens — Official subject to removal for violation, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-8.md
- 45-2-9, State agencies not to discriminate in employment against servicemen’s wives, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-9.md
- 45-2-20, ‘‘Armed conflict’’ defined, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-20.md
- 45-2-21, Veteran entitled to additional five points on civil service examination score, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-21.md
- 45-2-22, Disabled veteran entitled to additional ten points on civil service examination score, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-22.md
- 45-2-40, Employees to furnish certificate of physical fitness for employment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-40.md
- 45-2-41, Committee of doctors to develop fitness standards; licensed physician to make physical examination; contracts for assessments of employees; fee for committee members and consultants; certification, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-41.md
- 45-2-42, State department or agency to furnish standards of fitness of positions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-42.md
- 45-2-43, Examining medical practitioner to make report; conditions impairing prescribed duties; consent for distribution of additional confidential medical information; reports; confidentiality of files, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-43.md
- 45-2-44, State Personnel Board to adopt rules and regulations; expenditure of funds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-44.md
- 45-2-45, Applicability of article, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-2-45.md