Exhibit 31.1
 
Certification of CEO Pursuant to Securities Exchange Act
Rule 13a-14(a) / 15d-14(a) as Adopted Pursuant to
Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
 
I, William G. Smith, Jr.,
 
certify that:
 
1. I
 
have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Capital City Bank Group,
 
Inc.;
 
2. Based
 
on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a
 
material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under
 
which such statements were made, not misleading
with respect to the period covered by this report;
 
3. Based
 
on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
 
included in this report, fairly present in all
material respects the financial condition, results of operations and
 
cash flows of the registrant as of, and for,
 
the periods
presented in this report;
 
4. The
 
registrant’s other certifying officer
 
and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls
 
and
procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d
 
-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as
defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for
 
the registrant and have:
 
(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or
 
caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed
under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to
 
the registrant, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities,
 
particularly during the period in which this report
is being prepared;
 
(b) Designed
 
such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such
 
internal control over financial reporting to be
designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding
 
the reliability of financial reporting and
the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance
 
with generally accepted accounting
principles;
 
(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s
 
disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report
 
our
conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls
 
and procedures, as of the end of the period covered
 
by
this report based on such evaluation; and
 
(d) Disclosed
 
in this report any change in the registrant’s
 
internal control over financial reporting that occurred during
the registrant’s most recent fiscal
 
quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely
 
to materially affect, the
registrant’s internal control over
 
financial reporting; and
 
5. The
 
registrant’s other certifying officer
 
and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal
 
control over
financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors
 
and the audit committee of the registrant’s
 
board of directors (or persons
performing the equivalent functions):
 
(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or
 
operation of internal control over financial
reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect
 
the registrant’s ability to record,
 
process, summarize and
report financial information; and
 
(b) Any
 
fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
 
other employees who have a significant role in the
registrant’s internal control over
 
financial reporting.
 
 
/s/ William G. Smith, Jr.
William G. Smith, Jr.
Chairman, President and
 
Chief Executive Officer
 
Date: November 3, 2020