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Art. V, Sec. III, Para. II. Qualifications.
Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
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- (a)
No person shall be eligible to the office of the Secretary of State, Attorney General, State School Superintendent, Commissioner of Insurance, Commissioner of Agriculture, or Commissioner of Labor unless such person shall have been a citizen of the United States for ten years and a legal resident of the state for four years immediately preceding election or appointment and shall have attained the age of 25 years by the date of assuming office. All of said officers shall take such oath and give bond and security, as prescribed by law, for the faithful discharge of their duties.#
- (b)
No person shall be Attorney General unless such person shall have been an active-status member of the State Bar of Georgia for seven years.#
Editor's notes
The constitutional amendment (Ga. L. 1988, p. 2100, § 4) which would have revised subparagraph (a) to delete the reference to the State School Superintendent was defeated at the general election on November 8, 1988.
Cross references
Disabilities to holding office, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. II, Sec. II, Para. III; Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. II, Para. IV; §§ 16-10-9, 21-2-7, and 21-2-8; Ch. 2, T. 45; and § 45-5-2. Qualifications for specific offices, Commissioner of Agriculture, § 2-2-2; State School Superintendent, § 20-2-31; Commissioner of Labor, § 34-2-3. Eligibility for single elective office only, § 21-2-136.
Otras notas
- 1976 Constitution.
- Art. V, Sec. III, Para. IV; Art. VI, Sec. XIII, Para. I.
- Age at time of election.
- The word ‘‘election’’ as it appears in this provision means the day votes are cast, not the day when they are finally tabulated and certified by the Secretary of State. Poythress v. Moses, 250 Ga. 452, 298 S.E.2d 480 (1983) (decided under Ga. Const. 1976, Art. VI, Sec. XIII, Para. I, relating to qualifications of Attorney General and other officials.).
- ALR.
- Time as of which eligibility or ineligibility to office is to be determined, 88 ALR 812; 143 ALR 1026. Nonregistration as affecting one’s qualification to hold public office, 128 ALR 1117. Validity of requirement that candidate or public officer have been resident of governmental unit for specified period, 65 ALR3d 1048. Validity of age requirement for state public office, 90 ALR3d 900.
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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Texto leído de 2ga-const-(v2)-2016-pdf.pdf, Volumen V2, edición 2016, páginas 978 a 979; acción de fusión: carried; SHA-256 del archivo 1b27199d8655.