Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 18. PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-18-4. Effect of attachment of county of residence to different circuit.

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A person who has been appointed or elected district attorney of any circuit cannot be deprived of his office by the attachment of the county in which he resides to a different judicial circuit. In such a case, the district attorney shall continue to discharge the duties of his office as though he resided in the circuit.

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 350; Code 1868, § 411; Code 1873, § 376; Code 1882, § 376; Civil Code 1895, § 4391; Civil Code 1910, § 4925; Code 1933, § 24-2907.

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