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Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 21. PAYMENT AND DISPOSITION OF FINES AND FORFEITURES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-21-13. Priority of payment of claims for fees of solicitors of city courts, sheriffs, clerks, and district attorneys.

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

  1. (a)

    All claims for fees of solicitors of city courts, sheriffs, clerks, and district attorneys shall be paid from the funds arising from fines imposed in criminal cases before any claim or order of any claimant or distributee shall be paid.#

  2. (b)

    Nothing contained in subsection (a) of this Code section shall in any way affect the fines and bond forfeitures of any court whose officers are on salaries and where the fines and bond forfeitures are remitted to the county treasury.#

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. 1952, p. 246, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1983, p. 884, § 5-5; Ga. L. 2015, p. 693, § 3-32/HB 233.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2015, p. 693, § 4-1/HB 233, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: ‘‘This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2015, and shall apply to seizures of property for forfeiture that occur on or after that date. Any such seizure that occurs before July 1, 2015, shall be governed by the statute in effect at the time of such seizure.’’

Other notes

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted ‘‘fines and bond forfeitures’’ for ‘‘fines and forfeitures’’ twice in subsection (b). See editor’s note for applicability.

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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 457; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 3ead04cf60ab.