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Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 11. JUVENILE CODE · Article 6. DELINQUENCY · Part 7. SUMMONS AND SERVICE

15-11-530. Issuance of summons.

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

  1. (a)

    The court shall direct the issuance of a summons to a child and his or her parent, guardian, or legal custodian requiring them to appear before the court at the time fixed to answer the allegations of a petition alleging delinquency. A copy of the petition shall accompany the summons.#

  2. (b)

    The summons shall state that a party shall be entitled to have an attorney in the proceedings and that the court will appoint an attorney if the party is an indigent person.#

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, § 15-11-530, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 294, § 1-1/HB 242.

Cross references

Amendment to Juvenile Court petition, Uniform Rules for the Juvenile Courts of Georgia, Rule 6.6. Continuance of adjudicatory hearing in Juvenile Court, Uniform Rules for the Juvenile Courts of Georgia, Rule 11.3.

Law reviews

For article discussing due process in juvenile court procedures in California and Georgia, in light of In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 87 S. Ct. 1428, 18 L. Ed. 2d 527 (1967), see 8 Ga. St. B. J. 9 (1971).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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 1225; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1f1f034443c3.