2021 Georgia Code
Title 45 - Public Officers and Employees
Chapter 4 - Official Bonds
§ 45-4-27. Effect of Recovery on Bond Upon Subsequent Proceedings

Universal Citation: GA Code § 45-4-27 (2021)

Official bonds of public officers shall not be discharged by a single recovery, but proceedings against the officer or his sureties or both may be had from time to time until the whole penalty is exhausted; and said bonds are joint and several whether or not so set forth.

(Laws 1847, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 502; Code 1863, § 159; Code 1868, § 154; Code 1873, § 165; Code 1882, § 165; Civil Code 1895, § 261; Civil Code 1910, § 296; Code 1933, § 89-422.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 368.

C.J.S.

- 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 493.

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