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2014 Georgia Code
Title 45 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
Chapter 6 - POWERS AND DUTIES GENERALLY
§ 45-6-14 - Duty of incumbent to deliver office property to successor -- Failure of officer to deliver office property

GA Code § 45-6-14 (2014) What's This?

After the expiration of his term, if any officer shall willfully and unlawfully withhold or detain from his successor the books, papers, or other office property belonging to his office or if he shall mutilate, destroy, take away, or otherwise prevent the complete possession by his successor of such books, papers, or other office property, then he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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