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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 9. PROBATE COURTS · Article 3. COSTS AND COMPENSATION

15-9-60.1. Additional marriage license fee for State Children’s Trust Fund.

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  1. In addition to any fees required in subsection (k) of Code Section 15-9-60 for marriage applications the judge of the probate court shall charge an additional fee of $15.00 for issuing a marriage license. No amount of this additional fee shall be paid into the Judges of the Probate Courts Retirement Fund of Georgia provided for in Chapter 11 of Title 47 or be used for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits for judges of the probate courts. Each judge of the probate court shall collect the additional fees for issuing marriage licenses as provided in this Code section and shall pay such moneys over to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority by the last day of the month there following, to be deposited by the authority into the general treasury for the State Children’s Trust Fund. The authority shall, on a quarterly basis, make a report and accounting of all funds collected pursuant to this Code section and shall submit such report and accounting to the Office of Planning and Budget, the House Budget and Research Office, and the Senate Budget and Evaluation Office no later than 60 days after the last day of the preceding quarter.

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

Code 1981, § 15-9-60.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1987, p. 1133, § 3; Ga. L. 1988, p. 13, § 15; Ga. L. 2004, Ex. Sess., p. ES3, § 4/HB 1EX; Ga. L. 2008, p. VO1, § 1-4/HB 529; Ga. L. 2014, p. 866, § 15/SB 340; Ga. L. 2024, p. 537, § 2/SB 232, effective January 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective January 1, 2025, near the beginning of the first sentence, substituted “in subsection (k) of Code Section 15-9-60 for marriage applications,” for “in Code Section 15-9-60 for receiving marriage applications, issuing marriage licenses, and recording relative thereto,” and added “for the State Children’s Trust Fund” at the end of the third sentence. See Editor’s notes for applicability.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2024, p. 537, § 6/SB 232, not codified by the General Assembly, makes this Code section applicable to fees paid in a probate court on and after January 1, 2025.

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