{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-36-8-4","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 36-8-4","heading":"Establishment of salaries; payment; tax levy.","body":"The county governing authority shall fix the salaries of the county police, which salaries, together with the expense of maintaining the police, shall be paid out of the county treasury. The county governing authority is authorized to levy such tax as may be necessary to pay such salaries and expenses over and above the sums for which it is otherwise authorized to levy a tax.","path":["TITLE 36 Local Government","Provisions Applicable to Counties Only","CHAPTER 8 County Police"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.36.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"6fda84b56025eecaef9d3f7d54ddcd44c8b79d84d92c6f569ae1d472906d8c02","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-36-8-3","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-36-8-5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}