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Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 13. SECURING ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES AND PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION OF EVIDENCE · Article 5. UNIFORM INTERSTATE DEPOSITIONS AND DISCOVERY ACT

24-13-113. Compelling foreign witness to appear and testify.

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

  1. (a)

    For purposes of this Code section, the term “subpoena” shall have only the meaning set forth in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (5) of Code Section 24-13-111.#

  2. (b)

    In addition to the mechanism for issuing subpoenas provided for in Code Section 24-13-112, whenever any mandate, writ, or commission is issued out of any court of record in a foreign jurisdiction, a witness may be compelled by subpoena issued by the clerk of superior court of the county in which such witness resides to appear and testify in the same manner and by the same process and proceeding as may be employed for the purpose of taking testimony in proceedings pending in this state.#

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, § 24-13-113, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 651, § 2-1/HB 46.

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

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