Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 13. SECURING ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES AND PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION OF EVIDENCE · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

24-13-3. Witness fee exceptions.

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

(a)
A witness shall not receive any witness fees for attendance on a subpoena if such witness is absent from the proceeding, or if the proceeding is continued at any time due to his or her absence, where such absence did not arise from providential cause.#
(b)
No witness shall receive witness fees from both parties in the same proceeding; the fees of a witness for both parties shall be apportioned equally between the parties unless the costs are all taxed against one party.#

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, § 24-13-3, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

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