Georgia Code, Title 21, Chapter 2, Article 1 - General Provisions

• § 21-2-1 - Short Title; References to Chapter 3 of Title 21 or the Municipal Election Code
  (a) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia Election Code."(b) References in general and local law to the "Georgia...
• § 21-2-2 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter, the term: (.1) "Activities of daily living" includes eating, toileting, grooming, dressing, shaving, transferring, and other personal care services....
• Section 21-2-3. - Reserved
• § 21-2-4 - Preparation, Printing, Publicizing, and Distributing of Summary of General Amendments to Constitution of Georgia; Recording Summary on Audio Tape or Other Media
  (a) The summary of general amendments to the Constitution of Georgia prepared by the Attorney General, the legislative counsel, and the Secretary of State...
• § 21-2-4.1 - Continuation in Office, Dismissal, or Appointment of Members of Constitutional or Statutory Boards or Bodies for Which Membership Based on Residency Within Congressional District
  Repealed by Ga. L. 2011, Ex. Sess., p. 208, § 6/HB 20EX, effective September 6, 2011.
• § 21-2-5 - Qualifications of Candidates for Federal and State Office; Determination of Qualifications
  (a) Every candidate for federal and state office who is certified by the state executive committee of a political party or who files a...
• § 21-2-6 - Qualifications of Candidates for County and Municipal Office; Determination of Qualifications
  (a) Every candidate for county office who is certified by the county executive committee of a political party or who files a notice of...
• § 21-2-7 - Eligibility of Subversive Persons for Nomination or Election to Public Office
  No person who has been adjudged a "subversive person," as defined in Part 2 of Article 1 of Chapter 11 of Title 16, the...
• § 21-2-8 - Eligibility for Party Nomination, Public Office, or Performance of Certain Official Acts of Persons Convicted and Sentenced for Certain Crimes; Illegally Holding Any Public Funds; Effect of Disqualification of Superintendent
  No person shall be eligible for party nomination for or election to public office, nor shall he or she perform any official acts or...
• § 21-2-9 - Date of Election for Offices
  (a) The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, State School Superintendent, Commissioner of Insurance, Commissioner of Agriculture, Commissioner of Labor, members of...
• § 21-2-10 - Election of Presidential Electors
  At the November election to be held in the year 1964 and every fourth year thereafter, there shall be elected by the electors of...
• § 21-2-11 - Performance of Duties by Presidential Electors
  The presidential electors chosen pursuant to Code Section 21-2-10 shall assemble at the seat of government of this state at 12:00 Noon of the...
• § 21-2-12 - Procedure for Filling Presidential Elector Vacancies
  If any such presidential elector shall die, or for any cause fail to attend at the seat of government at the time appointed by...
• § 21-2-13 - Compensation of Presidential Electors; Payment of Expenses of Electoral College
  Each presidential elector shall receive from the state treasury the sum of $50.00 for every day spent in traveling to, remaining at, and returning...
• § 21-2-14 - Computation of Time As to Exercise of Privilege or Discharge of Duty Under Chapter
  Unless otherwise stated in a specific Code section of this chapter, time periods under this chapter include Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. When the...
• § 21-2-15 - Applicability of Chapter
  This chapter shall apply to any general or special election in this state to fill any federal, state, county, or municipal office, to any...
• § 21-2-16 - Construction of Chapter
  The provisions of this chapter, so far as they are the same as those of existing laws, are intended as a continuation of such...
• § 21-2-17 - Designation of Candidate's Chief Deputy Clerk in Elections for Clerk of State Court of Certain Counties
  (a) This Code section shall apply only to counties with a population of 425,000 or more according to the United States decennial census of...

Last modified: October 14, 2016