Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

15-6-81. Failure to perform duty punishable as contempt.

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Any clerk of the superior court who fails to perform any duty or to exercise any authority set forth in this article is subject to be fined for each offense by the presiding judge as for a contempt of court, on information of any party aggrieved, of which the clerk shall have notice in writing.

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, § 264; Code 1868, § 258; Code 1873, § 269; Code 1882, § 269; Civil Code 1895, § 4363; Civil Code 1910, § 4894; Code 1933, § 24-2721.

Cross references

Exercise of contempt power generally, § 15-1-4.

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