Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 10. MAGISTRATE COURTS · Article 7. TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

15-10-123. Local law references to justices of the peace deemed references to magistrates.

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Unless otherwise apparent from the context, references in local laws to justices of the peace and their courts shall be deemed on and after July 1, 1983, to refer to magistrates and magistrate courts.

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.

Code 1981, § 15-10-123, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 884, § 2-1.

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