---
title: O.C.G.A. § 15-2-4. Place of sessions; terms of court.
collection: code
id: 15-2-4
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 15-2-4 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/15-2-4
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/15-2-4.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/15-2-4/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t15-ch1-11a-(v13)-2020-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=d8a8826c_0#page=134
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/15-2.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/15-2-3.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/15-2-5.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: COURTS / SUPREME COURT / GENERAL PROVISIONS
---

# O.C.G.A. § 15-2-4. Place of sessions; terms of court.

(a) The Supreme Court shall sit at the seat of government.

(b) Unless the Supreme Court by rule or order chooses to extend its terms of court, the terms shall be as follows:

(1) December term beginning the first Monday in December;

(2) April term beginning the first Monday in April; and

(3) August term beginning the first Monday in August.

(c) Each term shall continue until the business for that term has been disposed of by the court, provided that, unless sooner closed by order of the court, the August term shall end on November 18, the December term shall end on March 31, and the April term shall end on July 17. No judgment in a second-term case, other than a judgment on a motion for reconsideration in such case, shall be rendered during the last 15 days of any term. Disposition of first-term cases may be made during nonterm periods.

## History

Laws 1845, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 448; Code 1863, § 3158; Code 1868, § 3170; Code 1873, § 3238; Code 1882, § 3238; Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 45, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 5494; Civil Code 1910, § 6099; Code 1933, § 24-3801; Ga. L. 1935, p. 161, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 956, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 430, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 360, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1, § 1; Ga. L. 2016, p. 883, § 5-1/HB 927.

## Editor's Notes

Ga. L. 2016, p. 883, § 1-1/HB 927, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: ‘‘This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Appellate Jurisdiction Reform Act of 2016.’’’

Ga. L. 2016, p. 883, § 6-1(e)/HB 927, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: ‘‘Part V of this Act shall become effective on December 5, 2016, and upon such date the December term of court shall begin as provided by this Act; provided, however, that the term of court which began on the first Monday in September, 2016, under the former provisions of Code Section 15-2-4 shall end on December 16, 2016.’’

## Law Reviews

For article on the 2016 amendment of this Code section, see 33 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 205 (2016).