Deputies shall give bonds with surety, payable to their principals, for their conduct as deputies, conditioned as and for the same amounts, unless otherwise provided by law, as their principals' bonds. Such bonds shall be recorded in the same office and in the same manner as the bonds of the principals.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 157; Code 1868, § 152; Code 1873, § 163; Code 1882, § 163; Civil Code 1895, § 259; Civil Code 1910, § 294; Code 1933, § 89-426; Ga. L. 1982, p. 1779, §§ 2, 4.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALA deputy sheriff should give bond in the same amount as principal. 1969 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 69-100.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
C.J.S.
- 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 473 et seq.
ALR.- Liability of clerk of court, county clerk or prothonotary, or surety on bond, for negligent or wrongful acts of deputies or assistants, 71 A.L.R.2d 1140.