Georgia Code, Title 45, Chapter 4 - Official Bonds

• § 45-4-1 - Bonds to Be Payable to Governor and Conditioned Upon Faithful Discharge of Duties
  The bonds of all public officers required by law to give bond, unless otherwise provided, shall be made payable to the Governor and his...
• § 45-4-2 - Deputies to Give Bond to Principals; Conditions, Amount, and Recording Same As Bonds of Principals
  Deputies shall give bonds with surety, payable to their principals, for their conduct as deputies, conditioned as and for the same amounts, unless otherwise...
• § 45-4-3 - Return of Bonds to Specified Officers; Actions on Bonds
  All bonds taken by public officers under the laws of this state shall be returned to the offices specified by law; and any person...
• § 45-4-4 - Bonds of Officers Commissioned by Governor to Be Prepared by Office of Governor
  Official bonds of all officers who are entitled to commissions from the Governor and who are required to give bonds shall be prepared and...
• § 45-4-5 - Bonds to Have Sureties; Number and Qualifications of Sureties Generally
  All bonds that this chapter applies to shall have at least two and not more than 20 good and solvent sureties who shall be...
• § 45-4-6 - Corporate Sureties Authorized
  Guaranty or surety companies incorporated under the laws of this state or which have complied with all requirements to transact business in this state...
• § 45-4-7 - County Officials Required to Have Corporate Surety on Bond; County to Pay Premiums
  All county officials who are required to give an official bond shall make bond signed by some surety or guaranty company authorized to do...
• § 45-4-8 - Attorney At Law or County Officer Not to Be Surety
  No attorney at law or county officer shall be accepted as surety on the bond of any county officer.
• § 45-4-9 - Governor to Require New Bond and Surety When Surety Relieved or Insufficient
  The Governor shall require a new surety and bond for the performance of any public duty by any officer under this chapter when, in...
• § 45-4-10 - Officer Failing to Comply With Requisition of Governor to Be Removed From Office
  If any officer shall fail to comply with the requisition of the Governor to furnish a new bond and surety within ten days from...
• § 45-4-11 - Blanket Bonds Covering Two or More Political Subdivisions, Officers Authorized; Amount and Coverage Period; Recording; Entities
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the several counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions of this state, including independent school...
• § 45-4-12 - Approval to Be Endorsed on Bonds; Bonds Not to Be Filed Until Approved
  The approval of all official bonds shall be in writing, endorsed on the bonds, and shall show the day and year on which they...
• § 45-4-13 - Approval, Filing, and Recording of Bonds of Court Clerks, Magistrates, Sheriffs, Coroners, Surveyors, Treasurers, and Tax Collectors
  The official bonds given for county taxes by the clerks of the superior courts, chief magistrates, magistrates, sheriffs, coroners, county surveyors, county treasurers, county...
• § 45-4-14 - Time for Filing Bonds
  The official bonds of public officers, required by law to be filed in the office of the comptroller general, Secretary of State or with...
• § 45-4-15 - Filing Time to Be Endorsed on Bonds
  Every officer in whose office the official bond of any public officer is filed shall endorse on such bond the day and year when...
• § 45-4-16 - Manner in Which Power of Attorney to Be Attested and Filed Where Bond Signed by Attorney in Fact
  When an official bond is signed by an attorney in fact, the power of attorney shall be attested by the judge of the probate...
• § 45-4-17 - Probate Court Judge to Certify to Governor Taking of Oaths and Giving of Bonds
  The judge of the probate court must sign a certificate to the Governor stating that the clerks of the superior courts, chief magistrates, magistrates,...
• § 45-4-18 - Certification of Failure of Officer to Make and File Bond
  When any officer of whom bond is required shall fail to make and file the same, as prescribed in Code Section 45-4-14, the court...
• § 45-4-19 - Notice to Attorney General of Failure of Officer to File Bond
  If any public officer required by law to give bond shall fail to file the same in the proper office within the time prescribed,...
• § 45-4-20 - Nonconforming Bond to Stand in Place of Official Bond Though Not Approved and Filed
  Whenever any officer required by law to give an official bond shall act under a bond which is not payable and conditioned or not...
• § 45-4-21 - Effect of Failure of Officer to Mark Bond or Give Required Notice
  If any officer whose duty it is to mark a bond filed and to give the several notices required in this chapter shall fail...
• § 45-4-22 - Performance by Public Officer of Official Act Before Bond Approved and Filed
  (a) No public officer required by law to give bond shall perform any official act before his bond is approved and filed as required.(b)...
• § 45-4-23 - Places for Keeping Bonds and Copies of Bonds
  All bonds taken from public officers shall be kept in the places specified by law and copies thereof shall be furnished to any person...
• § 45-4-24 - Bond Obligations of Principal and Surety; Conditions Required for Existence of Cause of Action on Bond
  (a) Every official bond executed under this chapter is obligatory on the principal and sureties thereon: (1) For any breach of the condition during...
• § 45-4-25 - Actions on Bonds of Public Officers Authorized; Name in Which Action to Be Brought; Jurisdiction
  Actions on bonds taken from public officers may be brought by any person aggrieved by the official misconduct of the officer, in his own...
• § 45-4-26 - Institution of Action on Deputy's Bond
  Any person who claims damages of any principal officer for the act of his deputy may, at his option, bring an action on the...
• § 45-4-27 - Effect of Recovery on Bond Upon Subsequent Proceedings Thereupon
  Official bonds of public officers shall not be discharged by a single recovery, but proceedings against the officer or his sureties or both may...
• § 45-4-28 - Officer Liable When Bond Penalty Exhausted or Invalid and When Acting Without Bond
  When the penalty of the bond is exhausted, the officer himself shall still be liable for the same measure of damages as upon his...
• § 45-4-29 - Measure of Damages in Actions on Official Bonds
  The measure of damages recoverable in actions upon all official bonds for the misconduct of the officer, unless otherwise specially enacted, shall be the...
• § 45-4-30 - Applicability of Chapter
  This chapter shall apply to the official bonds of all public officers of this state, including those whose offices may be established hereafter, unless...

Last modified: October 14, 2016