The members and employees of any commission governed by this article and the Commissioner shall not be held responsible individually in any way whatsoever to any producer, processor, distributor, or other handler or to any other person for errors in judgment, mistakes, or other acts, either of commission or omission, as principal, agent, person, or employee, except for their own individual acts of dishonesty or crime. No such person or employee shall be held responsible individually for any act or omission of any other member of any such commission. The liability of the members of the commission shall be several and not joint and no member shall be liable for the default of any other member.
(Ga. L. 1961, p. 301, § 21; Ga. L. 1969, p. 763, § 22; Code 1981, §2-8-11; Code 1981, §2-8-19, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1989, p. 1420, § 1.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
"Members" and "employees" not one and same.
- The General Assembly, by referring to both "members" of the commission and "employees" of the commission, would clearly seem to have indicated that "members and employees" are not one and the same. 1973 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 73-68.