2020 Georgia Code
Title 48 - Revenue and Taxation
Chapter 5 - Ad Valorem Taxation of Property
Article 5 - Uniform Property Tax Administration and Equalization
Part 2 - County Boards of Tax Assessors
§ 48-5-292. Ineligibility of County Tax Assessors to Hold Other Offices; Applicability in Certain Counties

1. No member of a county board of tax assessors shall be eligible to hold any state, county, or municipal office during the time he holds such office. A member of the board may be reappointed to succeed himself as a member of the board.
2. Reserved.
3. In any county in this state with a population of 100,000 or more according to the United States decennial census of 1990 or any future such census, no member of a county board of tax assessors shall be eligible to hold any county property appraisal staff position during the time such person holds office as a member of a county board of tax assessors, except as otherwise provided by law.
4. In any county in this state in which a chief appraiser or a member of the county property appraisal staff is not otherwise prohibited under this Code section from serving simultaneously as a member of the county board of tax assessors and is serving simultaneously in such capacity, such chief appraiser or member of the county property appraisal staff shall upon ceasing to serve as chief appraiser or member of the county property appraisal staff automatically cease to serve as a member of the county board of tax assessors.Any vacancy created on the county board of tax assessors under this subsection shall be filled in the manner provided under subsection (a) of Code Section 48-5-295.

(Ga. L. 1913, p. 123, § 4; Code 1933, § 92-6907; Ga. L. 1961, p. 563, § 1; Code 1933, § 91A-1437, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2; Ga. L. 1979, p. 514, § 2; Ga. L. 1993, p. 603, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 237, § 2; Ga. L. 1994, p. 507, § 2.)

Member of county board of tax assessors may not also serve as elected member of city council. 1980 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 80-166.

- Person who has previously served in the position of county tax assessor and is no longer a member of the board of tax assessors would not be ineligible because of the person's prior service on the board of tax assessors to serve in a "county office." 1968 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 68-262.

- Holding of the position of tax assessor would make one ineligible to serve on the board of commissioners of roads and revenues (now county governing authority). 1968 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 68-241.

Tax assessor cannot at the same time hold office of county commissioner. 1962 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 62.

Tax assessor can be an employee of any of the branches of government. 1954-56 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 665.

Secretary of a county board of tax assessors could legally serve as a tax commissioner under former Code 1933, §§ 92-6907 and 92-6910 (see now O.C.G.A. §§ 48-5-290,48-5-292, and48-5-298). 1952-53 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 303.

- Member of the county board of tax assessors is ineligible to hold office as a member of the county board of education. 1945-47 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 142.

Deputy sheriff, not being elected official and being removable from office at will of sheriff, is not prohibited from serving on board of tax assessors. 1962 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 56.

- Individual may not serve as a member of the board of tax assessors and at the same time hold the office of justice of the peace. 1958-59 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 34; 1967 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 67-122.

- Member of the county board of tax assessors is not eligible to hold the office of ex officio justice of the peace. 1948-49 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 344.

Person holding a notary public, ex officio justice of the peace commission cannot, at the same time, serve as county tax assessor. 1952-53 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 297; 1958-59 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 34.

- Statute states that the tax assessors shall be ineligible to hold any state, county, or municipal office, but the office of registrar would not come within either one of those classifications since that office is not a state or municipal office. 1948-49 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 457.