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Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 18. PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS · Article 5. PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS OF MUNICIPAL COURTS

15-18-94. Employment status; additional duties.

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

  1. (a)

    Unless otherwise provided by local law, the governing authority of the municipality shall determine whether the prosecuting attorney of a municipal court shall be a full-time or part-time prosecuting attorney.#

  2. (b)

    Any full-time prosecuting attorney of a municipal court and any full-time employees of the prosecuting attorney of a municipal court shall not engage in the private practice of law.#

  3. (c)

    Any part-time prosecuting attorney of a municipal court and any part-time assistant prosecuting attorney of a municipal court may engage in the private practice of law, but shall not practice in the municipal court or appear in any matter in which that prosecuting attorney has exercised jurisdiction.#

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, § 15-18-94, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 53, § 4/SB 352.

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

Text read from t15-ch12-24-(v13a)-2015-pdf.pdf, Volume V13A, 2015 edition, page 361; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 3ead04cf60ab.