The comptroller general is authorized and directed to designate one of his or her employees as deputy comptroller general. In the event the comptroller general is sick or for any other reason is absent from his or her office for three or more days, the deputy comptroller general shall examine, check, and countersign any warrants during the absence of the comptroller general.
(Code 1981, §50-5B-21, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1089, § 1/SB 343; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 50/HB 79.)
The 2013 amendment, effective April 24, 2013, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised capitalization in this Code section.