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# O.C.G.A. § 15-18-10. Compensation of district attorneys; private practice of law prohibited.

(a) (For effective date, see note.) Each district attorney shall receive an annual salary from state funds as prescribed by law. Such salary shall be paid as provided in Code Sections 15-18-10.1 and 15-18-19.

(b) The county or counties comprising the judicial circuit may supplement the salary of the district attorney in such amount as is or may be authorized by local Act or in such amount as may be determined by the governing authority of such county or counties, whichever is greater.

(c) (For effective date, see note.) The clerk of court shall collect any such fees, fines, forfeitures, costs, and emoluments and remit the same to the county treasury by the fifteenth day of each month.

(d) No district attorney receiving an annual salary under this Code section shall engage in the private practice of law.

## History

Code 1933, § 24-2905, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 1257, § 2; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1319, § 3; Ga. L. 2015, p. 919, § 1-5/HB 279.

## Cross References

Compensation and allowances of district attorneys, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VI, Sec. VIII, Para. I. Annual salary of district attorneys, § 45-7-4(a)(21).

## Editor's Notes

Ga. L. 2015, p. 919, § 4-1(b)(1) and (2)/HB 279, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: ‘‘(b)(1) Part I of this Act shall become effective only if funds are appropriated for purposes of Part I of this Act in an appropriations Act enacted at the 2015 regular session of the General Assembly.

‘‘(2) If funds are so appropriated, then Part I of this Act shall become effective on July 1, 2015, for purposes of making the initial appointments of the Court of Appeals Judges created by Part I of this Act, and for all other purposes, Part I of this Act shall become effective on January 1, 2016.’’ Funds were appropriated at the 2015 session of the General Assembly.

## Delayed Effective Date

Subsections (a) and (c), as set out above, become effective January 1, 2016. For versions of subsections (a) and (c) in effect until January 1, 2016, see the 2015 amendment note.

The 2015 amendment, substituted ‘‘Code Sections 15-18-10.1 and 15-18-19’’ for ‘‘Code Section 15-18-19’’ at the end of subsection (a); and deleted the former first sentence of subsection (c), which read: ‘‘All fees, fines, forfeitures, costs, and commissions formerly allowed district attorneys for their services as district attorney or as solicitor of any other court shall become the property of the county in which the services of the district attorney were rendered.’’ See editor’s note for effective date.