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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 5A. STATE-WIDE BUSINESS COURT

15-5A-5. Filing fees; fees submitted to state treasury.

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

  1. (a)

    The fee for filing a case with, or having a case transferred or removed to, the Georgia State-wide Business Court shall be $3,000.00, to be paid by:#

    1. (1)

      The party or parties filing the action in, or seeking transfer to, the Georgia State-wide Business Court under paragraph (1) or (3) of subsection (a) of Code Section 15-5A-4; or#

    2. (2)

      An equal allocation across all parties to an agreement seeking removal of the case to the Georgia State-wide Business Court under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Code Section 15-5A-4.#

  2. (b)

    All fees collected by the clerk of the Georgia State-wide Business Court pursuant to this Code section shall be the property of the state, and the same shall be paid into the state 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

Code 1981, § 15-5A-5, enacted by Ga. L. 2019, p. 845, § 1-1/HB 239; Ga. L. 2020, p. 493, § 15/SB 429. The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised punctuation in subsection (b).

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

Text read from t15-ch1-11a-(v13)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V13, 2020 edition, page 194; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1f1f034443c3.