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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 6. SUPERIOR COURTS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-6-13. Disqualified judge to procure replacement; failure as ground of impeachment.

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

  1. (a)

    When from any cause a judge of the superior court is disqualified from presiding in a matter, he shall procure the services of another superior court judge to try the matter, even if he has to call for a special term of court for that purpose.#

  2. (b)

    Failure of a judge to comply with subsection (a) of this Code section within a reasonable time, when it is in his power to do so, is a ground of impeachment.#

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

Orig. Code 1863, §§ 246, 247; Code 1868, §§ 240, 241; Code 1873, §§ 250, 251; Code 1882, §§ 250, 251; Civil Code 1895, §§ 4326, 4328; Civil Code 1910, §§ 4855, 4857; Code 1933, §§ 24-2623, 24-2624.

Cross references

Impeachment, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. VII. Judge’s exercise of power outside own court, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VI, Sec. I, Para. III. Recusal, Uniform Superior Court Rules, Rule 25.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Judicial Retirement, Discipline and Removal,’’ see 3 Ga. St. B. J. 197 (1966). For article discussing the inefficiency of mandamus and impeachment as remedies for judicial inaction, see 5 Ga. St. B. J. 467 (1969).

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