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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 10. MAGISTRATE COURTS · Article 5. FEES AND COSTS

15-10-87. Transfer of filing fee upon transfer of case to state or superior court; failure to transmit fee.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    When any case is transferred from the magistrate court to the state court or superior court, the magistrate court shall transmit to the state court clerk or superior court clerk the filing fee paid to the magistrate court. The state court clerk or superior court clerk shall file the case without further deposit against costs or filing fee, but as between the parties the costs shall be as in other cases in the state court or superior court. This subsection shall only apply to actions filed on or before June 30, 2012.#

  2. (b)

    When any case is transferred from the magistrate court to the state court or superior court, the magistrate court shall transmit to the state court clerk or superior court clerk the filing fee paid to the magistrate court. The state court clerk or superior court clerk shall file the case without further deposit against costs or filing fee; provided, however, that all costs and filing fees shall be paid by the parties within 30 days. Failure to pay such costs and filing fees shall result in a dismissal of the transferred case unless there is good cause shown. The magistrate court clerk shall transmit to the clerk of the state court or superior court a certified copy of the contents of the entire file for the case being transferred. This subsection shall only apply to actions filed on or after July 1, 2012.#

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, § 15-10-87, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 884, § 2-1; Ga. L. 2012, p. 173, § 1-28/HB 665.

Cross references

Filing and processing documents, Uniform State Court Rules, Rule 36.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t15-ch1-11a-(v13)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V13, 2020 edition, page 589; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1f1f034443c3.