Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 7. STATE COURTS OF COUNTIES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-7-3. Applicability of chapter; conflicts with local laws.

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This chapter shall apply to and govern all state courts; and, unless otherwise provided in this chapter, in all cases in which there is a conflict between this chapter and the local law creating the state court, this chapter shall take priority and shall be controlling.

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.

Code 1981, § 15-7-3, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 1419, § 2.

Local laws not in conflict with chapter to remain in effect, § 15-7-60.

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