15-9-5. When judge ineligible for reelection.

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

If any judge of the probate court fails to account faithfully as executor, administrator, or guardian after becoming judge, for all trusts he or she held at the time of his or her election, such judge shall be ineligible for reelection.

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

Ga. L. 1851-52, p. 91, § 4; Code 1863, § 311; Code 1868, § 371; Code 1873, § 336; Code 1882, § 336; Civil Code 1895, § 4237; Civil Code 1910, § 4795; Code 1933, § 24-1712; Ga. L. 2018, p. 356, § 1-6/SB 436. The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, in this Code section, inserted ‘‘or she’’ and ‘‘or her’’ in the middle, and substituted ‘‘such judge shall be’’ for ‘‘he is’’ near the end.

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Text read from t15-ch1-11a-(v13)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V13, 2020 edition, page 427; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1f1f034443c3.