2020 Georgia Code
Title 45 - Public Officers and Employees
Chapter 12 - Governor
Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally
§ 45-12-25. Books of Record to Be Maintained by Governor

The Governor shall cause to be kept and preserved in the executive department the following books of record:

1. A journal or minute book showing all of his official acts;
2. A book of appropriations in which shall be entered a full account of all annual appropriations, setting forth the amounts under their appropriate headings together with the date of his warrant for such appropriation and in whose favor drawn;
3. A book giving a statement of the public debt, the dates and numbers of the bonds issued, in whose favor, for what amounts, the date of payment, and the disposition thereof; also, a full and accurate account of all sums set apart as a sinking fund for the redemption of the public debt, particularly setting forth the amount for the several specific purposes, when drawn, and in whose favor drawn;
4. A book in which shall be kept copies of the bonds of officers or agents disbursing public funds; also, a schedule of bonds and other evidences of debt due the state and the disposition thereof;
5. A book showing the exact condition of the educational fund of the state and the annual income thereof;
6. A book or books containing a list of the respective numbers, districts, sections, and counties of the several lots of land disposed of by the several land lotteries, the names of the drawers of each, to whom and when granted, and a similar schedule of all lands sold by the state, by whom purchased, and to whom and when granted;
7. A book which is an index or key to all the documents appertaining to his office, which documents he has carefully filed away, properly marked or numbered; and
8. Any other books or files that, in his judgment, the executive department needs.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 78; Code 1868, § 72; Code 1873, § 77; Code 1882, § 77; Civil Code 1895, § 141; Civil Code 1910, § 164; Code 1933, § 40-208; Ga. L. 1945, p. 402, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 45.)

Funds appropriated to the Executive Department may be used to publish the official addresses, messages, and state papers of the Governor. 1945-47 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 299.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 81A C.J.S., States, § 254.