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title: Title 45, Chapter 4. Official Bonds
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date: 2025
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heading: OFFICIAL BONDS
title_heading: PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
section_count: 30
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# Title 45, Chapter 4. Official Bonds

Title 45. Public Officers and Employees

30 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 45-4-1, Bonds to be payable to Governor and conditioned upon faithful discharge of duties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-1.md
- 45-4-2, Deputy’s bond, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-2.md
- 45-4-3, Return of bonds; actions on bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-3.md
- 45-4-4, Bonds of officers commissioned by Governor, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-4.md
- 45-4-5, Bonds to have sureties; number and qualifications, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-5.md
- 45-4-6, Corporate sureties authorized, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-6.md
- 45-4-7, County officials required to have corporate surety on bond; county to pay premiums, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-7.md
- 45-4-8, Attorney at law or county officer not to be surety, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-8.md
- 45-4-9, New bond and surety when surety relieved or insufficient, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-9.md
- 45-4-10, Effect of officer failing to comply with new bond and surety, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-10.md
- 45-4-11, Blanket bonds covering two or more political subdivisions, officers authorized; amount and coverage period; recording; entities, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-11.md
- 45-4-12, Approval and filing of bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-12.md
- 45-4-13, Approval, filing, and recording of bonds of court clerks, magistrates, sheriffs, coroners, surveyors, treasurers, and tax collectors, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-13.md
- 45-4-14, Time for filing bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-14.md
- 45-4-15, Filing time to be endorsed on bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-15.md
- 45-4-16, Manner in which power of attorney to be attested and filed where bond signed by attorney in fact, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-16.md
- 45-4-17, Probate court judge to certify to Governor taking of oaths and giving of bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-17.md
- 45-4-18, Certification of failure of officer to make and file bond, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-18.md
- 45-4-19, Notice to Attorney General of failure of officer to file bond, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-19.md
- 45-4-20, Nonconforming bond to stand in place of official bond though not approved and filed, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-20.md
- 45-4-21, Effect of failure of officer to mark bond or give required notice, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-21.md
- 45-4-22, Effect of official act before bond approved and filed, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-22.md
- 45-4-23, Places for keeping bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-23.md
- 45-4-24, Bond obligations of principal and surety; conditions required for existence of cause of action on bond, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-24.md
- 45-4-25, Actions on bonds of public officers authorized; jurisdiction, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-25.md
- 45-4-26, Action on deputy’s bond, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-26.md
- 45-4-27, Effect of recovery on bond upon subsequent proceedings, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-27.md
- 45-4-28, Officer’s liability when bond exhausted or invalid and when acting without bond, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-28.md
- 45-4-29, Measure of damages in actions on official bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-29.md
- 45-4-30, Applicability of chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-4-30.md