2022 Georgia Code
Title 36 - Local Government
Chapter 30 - General Provisions
§ 36-30-6. Voting Upon Questions by Interested Councilmembers
It is improper and illegal for a member of a municipal council to vote upon any question brought before the council in which he is personally interested.
History. Civil Code 1895, § 751; Civil Code 1910, § 900; Code 1933, § 69-204.
History of Code section.
This Code section is derived from the decision in Daly v. Georgia S. & F.R.R., 80 Ga. 793 , 7 S.E. 146 (1888).
Law reviews.
For article, “Cities and Towns in Georgia: A Distinction with a Difference?,” see 14 Mercer L. Rev. 385 (1963).
For article surveying important general legal principles of municipal and county government purchasing and contracting in Georgia, see 16 Mercer L. Rev. 371 (1965).
For article discussing the impropriety of municipal employees representing their own self-interests in public matters, specifically relating to municipal purchasing, see 5 Ga. St. B.J. 309 (1969).
For article discussing the effect of the general criminal statute on self-interest and municipal purchasing (§ 16-10-6 ) on the general statute on votes by municipal councilmen in matters of personal interest (this section) and on local statutory law, see 7 Ga. St. B.J. 431 (1971).
