§ 2-54. Disclosure of interest in case of rezoning applications.

(a)

Upon application being made by any person to have a tract or parcel of real property in Cobb County rezoned, the chairman and each member of the board of commissioners and the chairman and each member of the planning and zoning commission shall fully and faithfully disclose to the public any interest in such tract or parcel of real property which each owns, either in his own name, or his name and that of another or others, or in the name of his spouse, or any interest in such tract or parcel of real property in the name of a public or private corporation in which each owns more than 15 percent of the outstanding capital stock in such corporation.

(b)

The disclosure shall be made in affidavit form and filed with the ordinary [now probate judge] of Cobb County, and a copy delivered to the planning and zoning commission. The affidavit shall contain the name of the owner or owners and the date the real property was purchased, and shall contain a sufficient legal description of the property to afford notice to the public.

(c)

The failure to file the affidavit of disclosure required herein within 20 days after such rezoning application shall cause the office of the person not filing such statement to be vacant as of the first day of the month following the 20th day. Any vacancy thus created shall be filled in the same manner as provided by law.

(1964 Ga. Laws (Ex. Sess.) (Act No. 22), page 2075, § 23A; 1965 Ga. Laws (Act No. 57), page 2192, § 8; 1966 Ga. Laws (Act No. 35), page 2070, § 1; 1969 Ga. Laws (Act No. 213), page 2486, § 2; 1973 Ga. Laws (Act No. 664), page 3640, § 1)