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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 7. SCHOLARSHIPS, LOANS, AND GRANTS · Part 3. GEORGIA STUDENT FINANCE AUTHORITY

20-3-381. Definitions.

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

  1. As used in this subpart, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Assistant district attorney” means an attorney employed full time as an assistant district attorney.#

  3. (2)

    “Assistant solicitor-general” or “assistant solicitor” means an attorney employed full time as an assistant solicitor-general, assistant city solicitor, or assistant municipal court solicitor.#

  4. (3)

    “Civil legal aid attorney” means an attorney employed full time as an attorney in a tax-exempt legal aid nonprofit corporation dedicated to providing free or reduced cost legal services to low-income clients in civil cases.#

  5. (4)

    “Civil legal aid organization” means a tax-exempt legal aid nonprofit corporation dedicated to providing free or reduced cost legal services to low-income clients in civil cases.#

  6. (5)

    “Education loan” means any obligation of an attorney to repay a debt created by the advances of money to the attorney by an institutional or governmental lender that financed, in whole or in part, the debt incurred by the attorney to obtain the undergraduate degree necessary to enter law school, the debt incurred to obtain a Juris Doctor degree or the equivalent, or both.#

  7. (6)

    “Fund” means the Public Interest Lawyers’ Fund created by Code Section 20-3-383.#

  8. (7)

    “Maximum amount authorized” means $600.00 per month or an amount authorized by subsection (b) or (c) of Code Section 20-3-387.#

  9. (8)

    “Office of Legislative Counsel attorney” means an attorney employed full time by the Office of Legislative Counsel.#

  10. (9)

    “Public defender” means an attorney employed full time in a city, county, state, or university affiliated public defender office or a criminal defense organization dedicated exclusively to providing indigent defense services as a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation.#

  11. (10)

    “Public defender organization” means a city, county, state, or university affiliated public defender office or a criminal defense organization dedicated exclusively to providing indigent defense services as a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation.#

  12. (11)

    “State Law Department attorney” means an attorney employed full time by the State Law Department.#

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, § 20-3-381, enacted by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1115, § 1.

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