Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HB 113 - Boards of health; members not to be elected officials

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1. Poston  3rd


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Rules Suspended to Introduce                                                                        
                                                                                                    
Code Sections amended: 31-3-2                                                                       


HB 113                                            LC 10 0922






                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Code Section 31-3-2 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1- 2  Annotated, relating to the composition of county boards of
  1- 3  health and the terms of members of such boards, so as to
  1- 4  provide that certain members appointed to a county board of
  1- 5  health shall not be elected officials; to provide that the
  1- 6  office of a member of a county board of health who shall not
  1- 7  be an elected official shall be declared vacant if such
  1- 8  member holds elective office on July 1, 1995, or upon any
  1- 9  such member being appointed to fill a vacancy in an elective
  1-10  office or qualifying for elective office in a general
  1-11  primary or general election or special primary or special
  1-12  election on or after July 1, 1995; to provide for the
  1-13  filling of certain vacancies in the membership of county
  1-14  boards of health; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
  1-15  purposes.

  1-16       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1-17   Code Section 31-3-2 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1-18  Annotated, relating to the composition of county boards of
  1-19  health and the terms of members of such boards, is amended
  1-20  by striking subsection (b) in its entirety and inserting in
  1-21  lieu thereof a new subsection (b) to read as follows:

  1-22    "(b) No member appointed to the county board of health
  1-23    shall be an employee of the county board of health or of
  1-24    the department. No member appointed to the county board of
  1-25    health pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), (4),
  1-26    (5), or (6) of subsection (a) of this Code section shall
  1-27    be an elected official. The office of a member of a county
  1-28    board of health appointed pursuant to the provisions of
  1-29    paragraph (3), (4), (5), or (6) of subsection (a) of this
  1-30    Code section shall be declared vacant if such member holds
  1-31    elective office on July 1, 1995, or upon any such member
  1-32    being appointed to fill a vacancy in an elective office or
  1-33    qualifying for elective office in a general primary or
  1-34    general election or special primary or special election on


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                                                  LC 10 0922

  2- 1    or after July 1, 1995.  A vacancy declared on the county
  2- 2    board of health pursuant to the provisions of this
  2- 3    subsection shall be filled in the same manner as provided
  2- 4    in subsection (d) of this Code section."

                         SECTION 2.

  2- 5   All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2- 6  repealed.








































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