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Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 21. PAYMENT AND DISPOSITION OF FINES AND FORFEITURES · Article 3. LIMITATION PERIOD AND RULES FOR CLAIMS AGAINST FINE AND BOND FORFEITURE FUND

15-21-54. Creation of claim for benefit of county against fine and bond forfeiture fund; priority of payment; rights of county to enforcement.

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

  1. In all criminal cases in which a county pays costs or fees to any officer of any court, the amount of the costs and fees so paid shall thereupon become a claim against the fine and bond forfeiture fund for the benefit of the county. The claim for the benefit of the county shall at all times take the same priority of payment as against the fine and bond forfeiture fund as though the claim or the costs and fees were still held by the officer who received the payment. Upon payment of the costs or fees, the county shall become subrogated to the rights of the officer regarding payment out of the fine and bond forfeiture fund, with all rights enjoyed by the officer to enforce same at any time.

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. 1949, p. 1168, § 2D; Ga. L. 2015, p. 693, § 3-33/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 ‘‘fine and bond forfeiture fund’’ for ‘‘fine and forfeiture fund’’ in three places in this Code section. 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 462; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 3ead04cf60ab.