36-81-4
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36-81-4.
(a)
Unless provided to the contrary by local charter or local Act, each local
government may appoint a budget officer to serve at the will of the governing
authority.
(b)
In those units of local government in which there is no budget officer, the
governing authority shall perform all duties of the budget officer as set forth
in Code Section 36-81-5.
(c)
Nothing in this Code section shall preclude the utilization of an executive
budget, under which an elected or appointed official, authorized by charter or
local law and acting as the chief executive of the governmental unit, exercises
the initial budgetary policy-making function, while another individual,
designated as provided in this Code section as budget officer, exercises the
administrative functions of budgetary preparation and control.