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2021 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 to Deliver Office Property
Universal Citation: GA Code § 45-6-14 (2021)
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.
(Laws 1833, Cobb's 1851 Digest, pp. 805, 806; Code 1863, § 4368; Code 1868, § 4406; Code 1873, § 4474; Code 1882, § 4474; Penal Code 1895, § 283; Penal Code 1910, § 287; Code 1933, § 89-9905.)
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- 76 C.J.S., Records, § 37.
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