Georgia Code, Title 15, Chapter 6, Article 1 - General Provisions

• § 15-6-1 - Composition of Judicial Circuits
  The entire state is divided into judicial circuits, in reference to the jurisdiction and sessions of the superior courts, as follows: (1) Alapaha Judicial...
• § 15-6-2 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Number of Judges
  The number of judges for each of the superior courts for each of the judicial circuits shall be as follows: (1) Alapaha Circuit.....................................................2 (2)...
• § 15-6-3 - Terms of Court
  The terms of court for the superior courts for each of the judicial circuits shall commence as follows: (1) Alapaha Circuit (A) Atkinson County...
• § 15-6-4 - Qualifications of Judges
  No person shall be judge of the superior courts unless, at the time of his election, he has attained the age of 30 years,...
• § 15-6-4.1 - Election of Judges
  Each judge of the superior courts shall be elected by the electors of the judicial circuit in which the judge is to serve.
• § 15-6-5 - Restrictions on Practice of Law
  Following their election, the judges of the superior courts are prohibited from practicing law in any of the courts of this state, provided that...
• § 15-6-6 - Oath of Judges
  Before entering on the duties of their office, superior court judges must take the oath required of all civil officers and in addition they...
• § 15-6-7 - Effect of Attachment of County to Different Judicial Circuit
  A person who has been elected a judge of the superior courts of any circuit cannot be deprived of his office by attachment of...
• § 15-6-8 - Jurisdiction and Powers of Superior Courts
  The superior courts have authority: (1) To exercise original, exclusive, or concurrent jurisdiction, as the case may be, of all causes, both civil and...
• § 15-6-9 - Authority of Judges Generally
  The judges of the superior courts have authority: (1) To grant for their respective circuits writs of certiorari, supersedeas, quo warranto, mandamus, habeas corpus,...
• § 15-6-10 - Discharge of Duties
  Each of the judges of the superior courts shall discharge all the duties required of him by the Constitution and laws for the circuit...
• § 15-6-11 - Authority of Certain Courts to Sit in Sections; Clerk's Duties; Discretion of Judges
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1981, p. 3, § 2, effective April 1, 1982.
• § 15-6-11.1 - Superior Court Judges Performing Ordered Military Duty
  (a) Any judge of superior court who is performing ordered military duty, as defined in Code Section 38-2-279, shall be eligible for reelection in...
• § 15-6-12 - Judges' Jurisdiction Coextensive With Limits of State; Authority When Serving in Other Circuits
  (a) The jurisdiction of the judges of the superior courts is coextensive with the limits of this state; they may act in circuits other...
• § 15-6-13 - Disqualified Judge to Procure Replacement; Failure As Ground of Impeachment
  (a) When from any cause a judge of the superior court is disqualified from presiding in a matter, he shall procure the services of...
• § 15-6-14 - Selection of Replacement Judge When Disqualified Judge Fails to Act
  (a) When from any cause the judge of the superior court or any city court is disqualified from presiding in any civil case and...
• § 15-6-15 - Assignment by Governor of Alternate for Disabled Judge; Duty of Judge Assigned
  (a) Whenever it is satisfactorily made to appear to the Governor that any regular term of the superior court, as fixed by law, in...
• § 15-6-16 - No Authority When Absent From State
  No judge of the superior courts shall have authority to perform any judicial act required of him by law when he is beyond the...
• § 15-6-17 - Time and Place of Holding Court Generally; Habeas Corpus and Other Nonjury Proceedings; Satellite Courthouses
  (a) One or more of the judges of the superior courts must hold the superior court of each circuit at the county site and...
• § 15-6-18 - Alternative Locations
  (a) If for any cause it shall or may be impracticable to hold any session or sitting of any superior or state court at...
• § 15-6-19 - Length of Terms of Courts
  The regular terms of the superior and state courts shall continue until the commencement of the next regular term, at which time they shall...
• § 15-6-20 - Special Terms
  The judges of the superior courts may, in their discretion, hold special terms of court in any county within their respective circuits when the...
• § 15-6-21 - Time for Deciding Motions; Filing and Notification; Noncompliance As Ground for Impeachment
  (a) In a county with less than 100,000 inhabitants, it shall be the duty of the judge of the superior, state, or city court,...
• § 15-6-22 - Adjournments
  (a) The judge may, during a term of court, adjourn the court to such time as he may think fit.(b) In case of unavoidable...
• § 15-6-23 - Signing Documents in Any County in Circuit
  Any judge of the superior courts may sign any document connected with the official duties of his office in any county comprising a part...
• § 15-6-24 - Payment of Court's Contingent Expenses
  (a) Any contingent expenses incurred in holding any session of the superior court, including lights, fuel, stationery, rent, publication of grand jury presentments when...
• § 15-6-25 - Employment of Secretary Authorized
  (a) Each superior court judge is authorized to employ a secretary.(b) All personnel actions involving secretaries appointed pursuant to this Code section shall be...
• § 15-6-26 - Supplementation of Secretary's Salary by County
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1335, § 2, effective July 1, 1997.
• § 15-6-27 - Procedure for Hiring Personnel Employed by Superior Court Judges; Local Supplements
  (a) All state paid personnel employed by the superior court judges pursuant to this article shall be employees of the judicial branch of state...
• § 15-6-28 - Law Assistants and Court Administrators for Judicial Circuits; Circuits Having Institutions for Carrying Out Death Sentences
  (a) The chief judge of each judicial circuit is authorized to employ either one law assistant or one court administrator for the circuit. Each...
• § 15-6-28.1 - Employment of Law Clerks by Chief Judges of Circuits Having Institutions for Carrying Out Death Sentences
  Repealed by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1335, § 5, effective July 1, 1997.
• § 15-6-29 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Salary of Judges
  (a) (For effective date, see note.) The annual salary of the judges of the superior courts shall be as provided in Code Section 45-7-4...
• § 15-6-29.1 - (for Effective Date, See Note.) Accountability Court Supplement; Limitation
  (a) Whenever a circuit has implemented a drug court division, mental health court division, or veterans court division, then on and after January 1,...
• § 15-6-30 - Travel Expenses
  (a) The judges of the superior courts of this state shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the compensation provided by law, reimbursement...
• § 15-6-31 - Transfer of Administrative Functions
  Effective July 1, 2008, the ministerial functions of the commissioner of administrative services or of the Department of Administrative Services relating to the payment...
• § 15-6-32 - Expenses for Attendance At Educational Programs
  Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, the judges and senior judges of the superior courts of this state are authorized to accept and...
• § 15-6-33 - Convention for Recommending Rules
  The several judges of the superior courts may convene at the seat of government once each year, at such time as they or a...
• § 15-6-34 - Creation of the Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia; Composition
  (a) There is created a superior court judges' council to be known as "The Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia." The council shall...
• § 15-6-35 - Selection of Bailiffs by Sheriff; Appointment of Additional Bailiffs
  The sheriff shall have the right to select such bailiffs, with the approval of the court, as may be necessary to transact properly the...
• § 15-6-36 - Notice of Student's Felony Conviction to School Superintendent
  (a) For the purposes of this Code section, "conviction" means any felony conviction of a person who is at least 17 years of age.(b)...

Last modified: October 14, 2016