Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the obligee in any bond of any collecting officer, officer to hold public funds, or any bank or depository in which public funds have been deposited from maintaining an action at law or in equity thereon when the official or county or municipal authority having jurisdiction to issue a citation has not begun a proceeding thereon by ordering a citation or execution to issue.
(Ga. L. 1933, p. 78, § 9h; Code 1933, § 89-825; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 45.)