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2021 Georgia Code
Title 21 - Elections
Chapter 2 - Elections and Primaries Generally
Article 4 - Selection and Qualification of Candidates and Presidential Electors
Part 2 - Political Party and Nonpartisan Primaries
§ 21-2-156. Payment of Primary Expenses
Universal Citation: GA Code § 21-2-156 (2021)
- The expenses of a primary shall be paid by the respective county, except that the expenses of municipal primaries shall be governed by subsections (b) and (c) of this Code section, and forms listed under paragraph (5) of Code Section 21-2-50 shall be furnished upon request by the Secretary of State.
- The expenses of a municipal primary shall be borne by the political party holding such primary except as provided in this subsection and subsection (c) of this Code section, and except that the expenses of providing polling places on public premises and electors lists shall be paid by the respective municipalities.
- The governing authority of each municipality may in its discretion authorize the payment by the municipality of any or all primary expenses other than those required by subsection (b) of this Code section to be paid by the municipality. This authorization of payment by the municipality of other primary expenses shall extend only to the expenses of primaries conducted by political parties which meet the definition of a "political party" contained in paragraph (25) of Code Section 21-2-2. Such additional expenditures as a municipal governing authority elects to make under this subsection are declared to be for a public purpose.
(Code 1933, § 34-1009, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1970, p. 347, § 13; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Rejection of exorbitant bill for election expenses.
- A county governing authority may reject a bill for expenses submitted by a probate judge for the conduct of an election in the event the county governing authority determines such bill to be exorbitant; however, the county governing authority must pay the expenses of a special primary even though the need for the special primary arose solely as a result of an error on the part of the probate judge. 1978 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U78-44.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 25 Am. Jur. 2d, Elections, § 159.
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