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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 19. ATTORNEYS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-19-2. Rules governing board of examiners; amount and disposition of examination fees.

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

  1. (a)

    It shall be the duty of the Justices of the Supreme Court to appoint and fix the number, terms, and compensation of the Board of Bar Examiners, whose powers and duties shall be as set forth by the Supreme Court by rule. All salaries, fees, and other expenses incurred in administering the Board of Bar Examiners and the examinations conducted by the board shall be paid by the Supreme Court.#

  2. (b)

    The Supreme Court, upon recommendation by the board, shall by rule set the amount of the examination fee to be paid by the applicants for admission to the bar by examination and shall direct to whom and when the fee shall be paid. The examination fee shall be reasonable and shall be determined in such a manner that the total amount of the fees charged and collected by the board in each fiscal year shall approximate the direct and indirect costs of administering the examination.#

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

Ga. L. 1897, p. 85, §§ 1-5; Ga. L. 1898, p. 83, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 4936; Code 1933, § 9-105; Ga. L. 1952, p. 262, § 1; Ga. L. 1971, p. 763, § 1; Ga. L. 1979, p. 502, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 15; Ga. L. 2009, p. 644, § 2/HB 283.

Law reviews

For article discussing Georgia system of admission to the bar by examination prior to revision and repeal of certain provisions in 1971, see 6 Mercer L. Rev. 216 (1955). For comment on Rogers v. Medical Ass’n, 244 Ga. 151, 259 S.E.2d 85 (1979), invalidating Georgia statute requiring Governor’s appointments to Composite State Board of Medical Examiners be made solely from nominees submitted by state medical society as an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority to a private organization, see 29 Emory L.J. 1183 (1980).

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Text read from t15-ch12-24-(v13a)-2015-pdf.pdf, Volume V13A, 2015 edition, pages 368 to 369; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 3ead04cf60ab.