Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 6. SUPERIOR COURTS · Article 2. CLERKS OF SUPERIOR COURTS

15-6-59. Bond; appointment of deputies.

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(a)
The clerk of each of the superior courts shall execute bond in the sum of $150,000.00, which amount may be increased in any county by local Act or by an ordinance or resolution of the governing authority.#
(b)
The clerks of superior courts shall have the power to appoint a deputy or deputies and, upon making such appointment, shall require from such deputies a bond with good security. The deputies shall take the same oaths as the clerks do before entering upon the discharge of their duties. The oath shall be administered by the clerk of superior court and recorded on the minutes of the superior court. Powers and duties of deputy clerks shall be the same as those of the clerks, as long as their principals continue in office and not longer, for faithful performance of which they and their securities shall be bound. The clerks of superior courts shall also have the authority to appoint one of their deputies as chief deputy clerk.#

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

Laws 1799, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 573; Laws 1817, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 206; Ga. L. 1851-52, p. 78, § 1; Code 1863, § 260; Code 1868, §§ 254, 255; Code 1873, § 266; Code 1882, § 266; Civil Code 1895, § 4359; Civil Code 1910, § 4890; Code 1933, § 24-2713; Ga. L. 1941, p. 374, § 1; Ga. L. 1965, p. 419, § 1; Ga. L. 1975, p. 923, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 733, § 2; Ga. L. 2012, p. 173, § 1-9/HB 665.

Cross references

Official bonds generally, § 45-4-1 et seq.

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