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GA Code § 36-5-22 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 5 - Organization of County Government|Article 2 - County Governing Authorities|§ 36-5-22. County Manager Authorized

  The governing authority of any county of this state or the General Assembly may create in and for those counties in which it deems necessary or advisable the office of county manager and may vest in such office powers, duties, and responsibilities of an administrative nature. The qualifications, method of selection, appointment, compensation, tenure, and such other related matters pertaining to the office of county manager shall be provided for by the governing authority of the county.   Nothing in this Code section shall pertain to consolidated governments which include all the area within any county.   This Code section shall not apply to any county having a population of more than 500,000 according to the United States decennial census of 1990 or any future such census.    (Ga. L. 1974, p. 435, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1482, § 7; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2341, § 1.)
GA Code § 36-5-23 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 5 - Organization of County Government|Article 2 - County Governing Authorities|§ 36-5-23. Salary of County Commissioner in Counties Having Population of Not Less Than 56,400 or More Than 60,000

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1038, § 1, effective July 1, 2002.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Code 1981, § 36-5-23, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 533, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1993, p. 91, § 36.
GA Code § 36-5-25 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 5 - Organization of County Government|Article 2 - County Governing Authorities|§ 36-5-25. Salary of County Commissioner in County Administered by Single Commissioner

  In every county of this state in which the county government is administered by a single county commissioner, such county commissioner shall be entitled to receive a minimum annual salary equal in amount to the minimum annual salary provided for the sheriff of any such county pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) of Code Section 15-16-20; provided, however, that a local law may provide for a greater annual salary than such minimum salary or may provide an expense allowance in addition to such minimum salary or in addition to such greater salary; provided, further, that any such county commissioner may by resolution elect to receive a salary of lesser amount which is provided by a local law.   The provisions of subsection (a) of this Code section shall not affect any automobile allowance provided for any such county commissioner pursuant to local law.     (Code 1981, §36-5-25, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 347, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 237, § 2; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1038, § 2.)
GA Code § 36-5-26 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 5 - Organization of County Government|Article 2 - County Governing Authorities|§ 36-5-26. Authorization for Service of Process

 A county governing authority shall have the power to authorize any of the officers, agents, and employees of the county to serve, in any manner prescribed by applicable law, any process, summons, notice, or order on all persons, as defined in Code Section 1-3-3 therein named, when:    The paper to be served arises out of or relates to an activity or condition conducted or maintained by such person within the territorial jurisdiction of the county in violation of an applicable law or ordinance covering the following: public housing, building, electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, air and water pollution control, solid waste management, and other technical or environmental codes; county business, occupation, and professional license tax ordinances; county privilege license or permit ordinances; or ordinances providing for the protection of facilities for the treatment or wholesale or retail distribution of water from tampering or theft which may arise either from a single isolated act or omission or from an activity or condition;   The paper to be served originates in or is issued under the authority of the department or branch of county government employing such officer, agent, or employee; and   Each and every day the condition is maintained or the activity is conducted is made a separate county offense by applicable law or ordinance.  Where any such paper names one or more persons who reside outside the territorial jurisdiction of the county, the several sheriffs, marshals, and constables of the several counties of this state are authorized and directed to serve any such paper and make appropriate return of such service by them, as other process is served and returned, on such named persons residing in their respective jurisdictions, upon receipt of a written request to make such service, for the fees allowed for service of process issued by the superior courts of this state.      (Code 1981, §36-5-26, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 2122, § 1.)
GA Code § 36-5-27 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 5 - Organization of County Government|Article 2 - County Governing Authorities|§ 36-5-27. Compensation Supplement With Designation as a Certified County Commissioner

 In addition to any other compensation to which a member of a county governing authority is entitled under general or local law, any such official who has been awarded a certificate from the University of Georgia, evidencing his or her successful completion of the voluntary course of training administered by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government resulting in designation as a certified county commissioner shall be entitled to a compensation supplement of $100.00 per month. With regard to members of the governing authority of a consolidated government, designation either as a certified county commissioner or a certified municipal official by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government shall be acceptable.    (Code 1981, §36-5-27, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 902, § 18.)
GA Code § 36-5-28 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 5 - Organization of County Government|Article 2 - County Governing Authorities|§ 36-5-28. Members of County Governing Authority to Receive Compensation Increase When Classified Service Employees Receive Increase; Calculation; Effective Date

 Whenever the state employees subject to compensation plans authorized and approved in accordance with Code Section 45-20-4 receive a cost-of-living increase or general performance based increase of a certain percentage or a certain amount, the compensation to which a member of a governing authority is entitled under general or local law shall be increased by the same percentage or same amount applicable to such state employees. If the cost-of-living increase or general performance based increase received by state employees is in different percentages or different amounts as to certain categories of employees, the amount to which a member of a county governing authority is entitled under general or local law shall be increased by a percentage or an amount not to exceed the average percentage or average amount of the general increase in salary granted to the state employees. The Office of Planning and Budget shall calculate the average percentage increase or average amount increase when necessary. The periodic changes in the amount to which a member of a county governing authority is entitled under general or local law shall become effective on the first day of January following the date that the cost-of-living increases or general performance based increases received by state employees become effective; provided, however, that if the cost-of-living increases received by state employees become effective on January 1, such periodic changes in the amount to which a member of a county governing authority is entitled under general or local law shall become effective on the same date that the cost-of-living increases or general performance based increases received by state employees become effective.    (Code 1981, §36-5-28, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 902, § 18; Ga. L. 2009, p. 745, § 1/SB 97; Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 2-55/HB 642.)   Cross references.   - Salaries and fees of public officers and employees, T. 45, C. 7.   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 3-1/HB 642, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "Personnel, equipment, and facilities that were assigned to the State Personnel Administration as of June 30, 2012, shall be transferred to the Department of Administrative Services on the effective date of this Act." This Act became effective July 1, 2012.   Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 3-2/HB 642, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "Appropriations for functions which are transferred by this Act may be transferred as provided in Code Section 45-12-90."
GA Code § 36-5-29 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 5 - Organization of County Government|Article 2 - County Governing Authorities|§ 36-5-29. Pay Increases for Certain Members of County Governing Authorities

  Compensation to which a member of a county governing authority is entitled under general or local law, including amounts provided for in Code Sections 36-5-27 and 36-5-28 shall be increased by multiplying said amounts by the percentage which equals 2.5 percent times the number of completed, four-year terms of office served by such member of a county governing authority where such terms have been completed after December 31, 2004, effective the first day of January following the completion of each such period of service.   For a member of a county governing authority elected to two-year terms of office or six-year terms of office, the percentage increase provided for in subsection (a) of this Code section shall be 1.25 percent times the number of completed two-year terms or 3.75 percent times the number of completed six-year terms as applicable.     (Code 1981, §36-5-29, enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 568, § 11/SB 450.)
GA Code § 36-17-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 17 - Grants of State Funds to Counties|Article 1 - Grants for Public Purposes Based Upon Road Mileage|§ 36-17-1. Legislative Purpose and Intent

 It is declared to be the purpose and intent of the General Assembly that state funds be made available to the governing authorities of the counties of this state to be expended for any public purposes.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 888, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, § 404 et seq.
GA Code § 36-17-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 17 - Grants of State Funds to Counties|Article 1 - Grants for Public Purposes Based Upon Road Mileage|§ 36-17-2. Computation of Individual County Grants

 To the extent that funds are made available by the budget authorities pursuant to the general appropriations Acts or any other laws for the purposes set out in Code Section 36-17-1, except for the grants to counties which are appropriated as a part of the appropriation to the Department of Transportation designated "For grants to counties for aid in county road construction and maintenance," the Office of the State Treasurer is authorized and directed to grant such funds to the counties of this state in the same proportion which the total public road mileage of each county bears to the total public road mileage in the state, as such mileage information is furnished by the Department of Transportation. The computation of individual county grants, as provided for in this Code section, shall be prepared and certified by the state treasurer, who shall make such payments.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 888, § 2; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 18; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, §§ 2, 3/SB 296.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Use of funds for social security.   - Appropriated grant moneys allocated to a county under the authority of this section may be withheld by the Department of Administrative Services and released to the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia to protect the system from delinquent social security reports and remittances for which the county is liable. 1975 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 75-65.
GA Code § 36-17-3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 17 - Grants of State Funds to Counties|Article 1 - Grants for Public Purposes Based Upon Road Mileage|§ 36-17-3. Disbursement and Expenditure of Funds

 Funds distributed under this article by the Office of the State Treasurer shall be paid to the counties in the name of the county treasurer or other fiscal authority authorized to receive county funds. Such funds shall be expended by the county only for the purposes prescribed in Code Section 36-17-1.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 888, § 3; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 18; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 2/SB 296.)
GA Code § 36-17-20 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 17 - Grants of State Funds to Counties|Article 2 - Grants to Counties for County Roads and Maintenance|§ 36-17-20. Authorization of Grants

 Pursuant to the authority granted to the General Assembly in Article III, Section IX, Paragraph II(c) of the Constitution of Georgia and in order to provide for a more effective management and fiscal administration of the state and pursuant to Article III, Section IX, Paragraph VI(b) of the Constitution of Georgia, in order to provide funds to counties to aid in the construction and maintenance of county roads and, in addition to funds provided pursuant to other laws, there may be allotted to each county annually for county road construction and maintenance certain grants as provided in Code Sections 36-17-21 and 36-17-22.   (Ga. L. 1973, p. 475, § 1; Ga. L. 1975, p. 1079, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 57; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 36.)
GA Code § 36-17-21 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 17 - Grants of State Funds to Counties|Article 2 - Grants to Counties for County Roads and Maintenance|§ 36-17-21. Allocation of Funds; Grant of Tax Credit to Homesteads as Prerequisite to Receipt of Funds; Use of Surplus Funds

  In any year in which the General Assembly appropriates by line item, and with reference to this Code section, funds necessary to provide grants to counties to aid in the construction and maintenance of county roads, such grants shall be allotted to each county pro rata according to each county's share of the total number of homesteads in the state for the immediately preceding year. For purposes of this Code section and Code Section 36-17-22, the term "homestead" shall mean and include all that tangible property upon which an ad valorem property tax homestead exemption was claimed and allowed.   In order to provide better fiscal management, the funds provided pursuant to this Code section are intended to be utilized for the relief of ad valorem taxation on tangible property. No county shall be entitled to receive any of the funds provided for in this Code section unless and until a credit against county ad valorem property taxes levied and expended by the county governing authority is granted by the governing authority of the county to each homestead located within the county. Each credit shall equal an amount computed as follows: the amount of the grant allotted, pursuant to this Code section, to the county to aid in the construction and maintenance of county roads, divided by the number of homesteads in the county.   No credit granted pursuant to this Code section shall exceed one-half of the credit recipient's total tax liability for county ad valorem property taxes levied and expended by the county governing authority.   If a surplus remains from the funds allotted to such county by this Code section after complying with this Code section, such remaining funds shall be deemed appropriated and allotted to the county under Code Section 36-17-22.    (Ga. L. 1973, p. 475, § 3; Ga. L. 1975, p. 1079, § 2; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 36.)
GA Code § 36-17-22 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 17 - Grants of State Funds to Counties|Article 2 - Grants to Counties for County Roads and Maintenance|§ 36-17-22. Allocation of Funds; Grant of Credit on Certain Tangible Property Taxes as Prerequisite to Receipt of Funds

  In any year in which the General Assembly appropriates by line item, and with reference to this Code section, funds necessary to provide grants to counties to aid in the construction and maintenance of county roads, such grants shall be allotted to each county pro rata according to each county's share of the total number of homesteads in the state for the immediately preceding year.   In order to provide better fiscal management, the funds provided pursuant to this Code section are intended to be utilized for the relief of ad valorem taxation on tangible property. No county shall be entitled to receive any of the funds provided for in this Code section unless and until a credit against county ad valorem property taxes levied and expended by the county governing authority is granted by the governing authority of the county to all eligible tangible property, as defined in subsection (c) of this Code section, except motor vehicles and trailers, located within the county. Each credit shall equal an amount computed as follows: a pro rata share of the sum of the grant allotted, pursuant to this Code section, to the county to aid in the construction and maintenance of county roads and the surplus, if any, from the funds allotted to such county by subsection (a) of Code Section 36-17-21, after compliance by the county with the provisions of subsection (b) of Code Section 36-17-21.   As used in this Code section, the term "eligible tangible property" means all tangible property except that tangible property required to be returned to and assessed by the state revenue commissioner pursuant to statutes passed by the General Assembly under the authority of Article VII, Section I, Paragraph III of the Constitution of Georgia.    (Ga. L. 1975, p. 1079, § 3; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 36.)
GA Code § 36-17-23 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 17 - Grants of State Funds to Counties|Article 2 - Grants to Counties for County Roads and Maintenance|§ 36-17-23. Limits on Granting of Credits; Claim and Certification of Credits by Taxpayer; Recovery of Credits Erroneously or Illegally Granted; Payment of Tax Liability Prerequisite to Credit

  No credit or combination of credits granted pursuant to this article shall exceed the lesser of (1) $1,000.00 or (2) the credit recipient's total tax liability for county ad valorem property taxes levied and expended by the county governing authority. No credit authorized by such Code sections shall be granted unless the taxpayer claims his entitlement to such credit and certifies that the sum of all such credits so claimed by him does not exceed $1,000.00. The state revenue commissioner shall provide by regulation for the forms and procedures by which taxpayers shall claim credits and certify the sum thereof. The governing authorities of the various counties shall make available to the taxing authorities of such counties funds sufficient to defray the administrative costs of this article. Any person who, with intent to receive credit not authorized by this article, claims a credit to which he is not lawfully entitled or falsely certifies the sum of credits claimed by him shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any credit erroneously or illegally granted, whether due to negligence or any other cause, shall be recoverable by the county granting such credit in the same fashion as any other delinquent property tax.   No credit authorized under this article shall be granted to any taxpayer unless the taxpayer pays his then current tax liability for county ad valorem property taxes levied and expended by the county governing authority on or before the date such liability becomes due. However, in order to comply with this subsection, the governing authority of any county may, by appropriate resolution, extend the date that such tax liability becomes due.    (Ga. L. 1975, p. 1079, § 4.)
GA Code § 36-17-24 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 17 - Grants of State Funds to Counties|Article 2 - Grants to Counties for County Roads and Maintenance|§ 36-17-24. Credits and Surplus to Be Shown on Tax Bills; Disbursal of Funds on Certification of State Revenue Commissioner

 The taxing authority of each county receiving funds pursuant to this article shall show in a prominent manner on the tax bill of each ad valorem taxpayer the dollar amount of credit against ad valorem property taxes which the taxpayer is receiving as a result of the funds allocated and shall show that such credit is a result of the passage of such Code sections by the General Assembly. Each such tax bill shall also show in a prominent manner the amount of any surplus, from the funds allotted to the county by such Code sections, after compliance by the county with subsection (b) of Code Section 36-17-21 and subsection (b) of Code Section 36-17-22, retained by the governing authority of the county. The form of the notice shall be as prescribed by the state revenue commissioner, who shall determine and certify to the appropriate state fiscal officer the amount of funds to which each county is entitled pursuant to this article. The determination of the state revenue commissioner shall be final and the appropriate state fiscal officer shall disburse the funds pursuant to the certification.   (Ga. L. 1973, p. 475, § 4; Ga. L. 1975, p. 1079, § 5.)
GA Code § 36-17-25 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 17 - Grants of State Funds to Counties|Article 2 - Grants to Counties for County Roads and Maintenance|§ 36-17-25. Administration of Article by State Revenue Commissioner; Promulgation of Rules and Regulations

 It shall be the duty of the state revenue commissioner to administer this article. The commissioner shall have the authority to promulgate such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary for the effective administration of this article.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 1079, § 6.)
GA Code § 36-32-1.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 32 - Municipal Courts|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 36-32-1.1. Municipal Court Judges; Qualifications to Serve

 Municipal court judges shall be licensed to practice law in the State of Georgia and an active member in good standing of the State Bar of Georgia; provided, however, that any judge serving on June 30, 2011, who does not meet the qualifications required by this Code section may serve as municipal court judge in any municipality so long as such judge is in compliance with Code Section 36-32-27. The provisions of this Code section shall expressly supersede any conflicting local law of this state.    (Code 1981, §36-32-1.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 398, § 1/SB 30.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Member of General Assembly may not serve as municipal court judge.   - While the separation of powers doctrine does not apply when the issues relate solely to municipal officials utilizing municipal powers, it does apply when it concerns a municipal court judge exercising state judicial powers. Because of that, the exercise of those state judicial powers by a legislator would be a violation of the constitutional prohibition against a member of one branch exercising the powers of another branch of government. Therefore, a member of the Georgia General Assembly may not serve as a municipal court judge. 2014 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U2014-2.