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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 5. ADMINISTRATION OF COURTS OF RECORD GENERALLY · Article 1. JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION

15-5-5. Duties of district administrative judge.

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

  1. The duties and authority of each district administrative judge shall be as follows:

  2. (1)

    To request, collect, and receive information from the courts of record within his or her district pursuant to uniform rules promulgated by the ten administrative judges;#

  3. (2)

    To authorize and assign any superior court judge within the district to sit on any type of case or to handle other administrative or judicial matters within the district; provided, however, that the assignment shall be made with the consent of the assigned judge and with the consent of the majority of the judges of the circuit to which the assignment is made and that the assignment shall be made subject to rules promulgated by the district council by a majority vote of the superior court judges within the district; and#

  4. (3)

    To assist the various courts of record within his or her district with the implementation and continued maintenance of uniform standards promulgated pursuant to paragraph (5) of subsection (h) of Code Section 15-5-24.1.#

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. 1976, p. 782, § 6; Ga. L. 2023, p. 294, § 1/SB 272, effective May 1, 2023.

Amendments

The 2023 amendment, effective May 1, 2023, in paragraph (1), inserted “or her” following “his” and deleted “and” at the end; in paragraph (2), substituted “; and” for a period at the end; and added paragraph (3).

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

Text read from t15-ch1-11a-(v13)-pdf.pdf, Volume V13, 2020 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 11 to 12; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 d86fd6e4449f.