Office of Deputy State Revenue Commissioner

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5. State Administrative Organization
6. Office of Deputy State Revenue Commissioner

1. There is created the office of deputy state revenue commissioner, who shall exercise the authority of the commissioner in matters specified by law and in any other such matters as the commissioner may delegate to him or her in writing. The actions of the deputy commissioner, within the scope of his or her authority, shall have the same force and effect as the actions of the commissioner.
2. The deputy commissioner shall be appointed by the commissioner. He or she shall hold office at the pleasure of the commissioner and shall not be subject to the state system of personnel administration provided by Chapter 20 of Title 45. The deputy commissioner shall take the oath of office of the commissioner as provided in subsection (d) of Code Section 48-2-2.
3. The deputy commissioner shall receive a salary as determined by the commissioner, subject to the approval of the Office of Planning and Budget and paid from funds appropriated by the department. The deputy commissioner's salary shall in no event exceed the salary of the commissioner.
4. The deputy commissioner shall execute and file an official surety bond approved as to form and sufficiency by the Attorney General in the same amount as required for the commissioner by subsection (e) of Code Section 48-2-2. The premium on the bond shall be paid as an expense of the department.
5. The deputy commissioner shall have the authority of the commissioner to:
   1. Issue licenses;
   2. Make proposed and final assessments;
   3. Deny protests and claims for refund;
   4. Issue summons of garnishment;
   5. Enter into agreements extending statutory periods of limitation;
   6. Issue, amend, and cancel tax executions; and
   7. Execute all documents and papers necessary for the performance of his or her or the commissioner's duties or for the exercise of his or her authority or the authority of the commissioner which has been delegated to him or her in writing.

(Ga. L. 1951, p. 614, § 2; Ga. L. 1963, p. 133, § 1; Ga. L. 1970, p. 108, § 1; Code 1933, § 91A-205, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2; Ga. L. 1979, p. 5, § 5; Ga. L. 1983, p. 526, § 2; Ga. L. 2009, p. 745, § 1/SB 97; Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 2-88/HB 642.)

Cross references.

- Official bonds generally, T. 45, C. 4.

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2009, p. 745, § 1/SB 97, was treated as replacing "State Merit System" with "State Personnel Administration".

Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 3-1/HB 642, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "Personnel, equipment, and facilities that were assigned to the State Personnel Administration as of June 30, 2012, shall be transferred to the Department of Administrative Services on the effective date of this Act." This Act became effective July 1, 2012.

Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 3-2/HB 642, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "Appropriations for functions which are transferred by this Act may be transferred as provided in Code Section 45-12-90."

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Deputy director not authorized to execute instrument closing question of tax liability.

- Plea in bar based upon an instrument signed by the petitioner and by one described as the deputy director, Department of Revenue, Income Tax Unit, whereby the revenue commissioner and the petitioner were obligated not to reopen the question of liability for taxes sought to be recovered, the instrument not being executed by anyone authorized by law to execute it on behalf of the state is binding upon neither, and the plea based thereon was properly dismissed on demurrer (now motion to dismiss). Redwine v. Schenley Indus., Inc., 210 Ga. 769, 83 S.E.2d 16 (1954).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 81A C.J.S., States, § 174.

ALR.

- Power to remit, release, or compromise tax claim, 28 A.L.R.2d 1425.

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