Section 38-4-6. Veterans Service Board -- Policy recommendations; appoint commissioner; discharge of commissioner; commissioner's political activity

   (a) The Veterans Service Board shall recommend to the commissioner matters of policy, procedure, and work projects.

(b) The board shall select a commissioner of veterans service, who shall serve for a term of four years and who shall be chief executive and administrative official of the department and the board. The board, however, at any time for good and sufficient cause, properly shown, may dispense with the services of the commissioner after notice has been given to the commissioner and a hearing has been held before the board, at which hearing the commissioner shall be heard in person, by counsel, or both. No person who serves as commissioner shall be eligible, except as provided in subsection (c) of this Code section, to run as a candidate in any primary, special, or general election for any state or federal elective office nor to hold any such office, except as provided in subsection (c) of this Code section, during the time he serves as commissioner and for a period of 12 months after the date he ceases to serve as commissioner.

(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this Code section, nothing contained in this Code section shall prevent the commissioner from being appointed to any such office nor disqualify the commissioner to run in any such elections to succeed himself in any office to which he might have been appointed nor to hold such office in the event he is elected thereto and qualifies under the requirements of law.

Ga. L. 1908, p. 66, § 5; Ga. L. 1931, p. 7, § 10; Code 1933, § 78-104; Ga. L. 1945, p. 319, § 4; Ga. L. 1955, p. 664, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1401, § 5; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 38.