Bill Text: GA HB530 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Forest Park, City of; remove certain officials from office; change procedure

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-16 - House Second Readers [HB530 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB530-Introduced.html

---

11 LC 34 2973

House Bill 530

By: Representatives Abdul-Salaam of the 74th, Jordan of the 77th, Baker of the 78th, and Heckstall of the 62nd

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Forest Park, approved March 24, 1988 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 4409), as amended, so as to clarify that the mayor is elected at large; to change the procedure to remove certain officials from office; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

An Act providing a new charter for the City of Forest Park, approved March 24, 1988 (Ga. L. 1988, p. 4409), as amended, is amended by revising subsection (b) of Section 5.12 as follows:

"(b) The mayor shall be elected at large."

SECTION 2.

Said Act is further amended by revising subsection (b) of Section 5.16 as follows:

"(b) Removal of an officer pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be accomplished as follows: by the vote of three council members after an investigative hearing. In the event an elected officer is sought to be removed by the action of the city council, such officer shall be entitled to a written notice specifying the ground or grounds for removal and to a public hearing which shall be held not less than ten days after the service of such written notice. Any elected officer sought to be removed from office as herein provided shall have the right of appeal from the decision of the city council to the Superior Court of Clayton County. Such appeal shall be governed by the same rules as govern appeals to the superior court from the probate court."

SECTION 3.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.