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Title 36 - Local Government
Chapter 81 - Budgets and Audits
Article 1 - Local Government Budgets and Audits
§ 36-81-4. Appointment of Budget Officer; Performance of Duties by Governing Authority in Absence of Appointment; Utilization of Executive Budget
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GA Code § 36-81-4 (2022)
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- Unless provided to the contrary by local charter or local Act, each local government may appoint a budget officer to serve at the will of the governing authority.
- In those units of local government in which there is no budget officer, the governing authority shall perform all duties of the budget officer as set forth in Code Section 36-81-5.
- Nothing in this Code section shall preclude the utilization of an executive budget, under which an elected or appointed official, authorized by charter or local law and acting as the chief executive of the governmental unit, exercises the initial budgetary policy-making function, while another individual, designated as provided in this Code section as budget officer, exercises the administrative functions of budgetary preparation and control.
History. Ga. L. 1980, p. 1738, § 5.
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