Georgia Code, Title 15, Chapter 13, Article 1 - Liability for Official Acts

• § 15-13-1 - Officers of Court Liability
  All sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, coroners, jailers, constables, and other officers of court shall be liable to all actions and disabilities which they incur in...
• § 15-13-2 - Liability of Sheriffs to Damage Action or Contempt
  Any sheriff shall be liable to an action for damages or an attachment for contempt of court, at the option of the party, whenever...
• § 15-13-3 - Demand for Money Collected; Interest From Date of Demand; Verified Copy As Evidence
  (a) If any sheriff, coroner, magistrate, constable, clerk of the superior court, or attorney at law fails, upon application, to pay to the proper...
• § 15-13-4 - Rule Nisi; Service
  The judges of the superior courts, judges of the probate courts, and magistrates, respectively, upon application, may grant rules nisi against all officers subject...
• § 15-13-5 - Verified Answer; Jury Trial; Disposition
  The officer called on by rule nisi, as provided in Code Section 15-13-4, shall fully respond in writing to the rule, which answer shall...
• § 15-13-6 - When Rule Absolute Granted Without Notice
  If a sheriff or other officer designedly absents himself from his court, the presiding judge or justice, when required by plaintiffs in execution or...
• § 15-13-7 - Liability of Magistrates and Constables to Rule Nisi
  Magistrates and constables shall be considered officers of the superior court so far as to be subject to be ruled under similar conditions as...
• § 15-13-8 - Retired Officers Subject to Court Order
  Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, coroners, clerks of the superior courts, magistrates, and constables shall be subject to the rule and order of the courts at...
• § 15-13-9 - Deputy Sheriff's Liability; Effect on Sheriff
  All deputy sheriffs shall be liable to be ruled and attached in the same way and manner as sheriffs. However, the liability of the...
• § 15-13-10 - Appointment of Special Officer to Execute Rule or Order Against Sheriff or Deputy
  Whenever the sheriff or his deputy is a party to any rule or is interested therein and there is no coroner or other lawful...
• § 15-13-11 - Rule Absolute As Lien on Officer's Property
  When a rule absolute has been obtained against any officer for the payment of money, as provided in Code Sections 15-13-4 and 15-13-5, the...
• § 15-13-12 - Date of Lien Against Officer's Property
  Unless otherwise provided by law, a rule absolute granted against a sheriff, constable, or other officer who has defaulted in his duty shall constitute...
• § 15-13-13 - When Officer May Pay Money Over to Plaintiff; Claims; Distribution by Court; Effect on Notified Parties
  (a) Where money is in the hands of an officer, he may pay it over to the plaintiff by whose process it was raised,...
• § 15-13-14 - Punishment for Improper Return or Failure to Pay Over Money Received
  If any sheriff or other officer fails to make a proper return of all writs, executions, and other processes put into his hands or...

Last modified: October 14, 2016