Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 10. MAGISTRATE COURTS · Article 6. CONSTABLES, CLERK, AND OTHER COURT PERSONNEL

15-10-102. Powers and duties of constables.

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The powers and duties of constables include the following:
(1)
To attend regularly all sessions of magistrate court;#
(2)
To pay promptly over money collected by them to the magistrate court;#
(3)
To execute and return all warrants, summonses, executions, and other processes directed to them by the magistrate court; and#
(4)
To perform such other duties as are required of them by law or as necessarily appertain to their offices.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 15-10-102, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 884, § 2-1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 15.

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