Georgia Code
Chapter 4 - Recall of Public Officers
§ 21-4-5. Recall Petition — Application for and Time of Filing; Sponsors; Withdrawal of Signature; Duties of Election Superintendent; Printing and Distribution of Recall Petition Forms by Secretary of State

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No notary public may sign the application as an elector or serve as a circulator of any application which he or she notarized. Any and all sheets of an application for a recall petition that have the circulator’s affidavit notarized by a notary public who also served as a circulator of one or more sheets of the application for a recall petition or who signed one of the sheets of the petition as an elector shall be disqualified and rejected.
AFFIDAVIT OF CIRCULATOR AND PETITION CHAIRPERSON State of Georgia County of Under the penalty of a violation of of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to false swearing, punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000.00 or by imprisonment of not less than one nor more than five years, or both, we the undersigned do depose and say that each person sponsoring or signing the recall application of is an elector of the electoral district of the officer sought to be recalled and further depose and say that the fact or facts upon which the ground or grounds for recall are based are true. Code Section 16-10-71 (Signature of circulator) (Residence address) (Number and street or route) (City) (Signature of petition chairperson) (Residence address) (Number and street or route) (City) Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of , . Notary public , Georgia My commission expires on the day of , .
History. Code 1981, § 21-4-5 , enacted by Ga. L. 1989, p. 1721, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1939, §§ 2-4; Ga. L. 1999, p. 21, § 1; Ga. L. 1999, p. 23, § 3; Ga. L. 2001, p. 230, § 19.
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 1990, p. 1939, § 8, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the Act shall only apply to recall proceedings under Chapter 4 of Title 21 which are instituted on or after July 1, 1990.
Law reviews.
For note on the 2001 amendment to this Code section, see 18 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 114 (2001).
For article, “Local Government Law,” see 53 Mercer L. Rev. 389 (2001).

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