Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT · Chapter 32. MUNICIPAL COURTS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

36-32-3. Powers of judges.

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All judges of all municipal courts in this state shall have and are given the same powers and authorities as magistrates in the matter of and pertaining to criminal cases of whatever nature in the several courts of 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

Ga. L. 1935, p. 458, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 884, § 3-26; Ga. L. 1987, p. 3, § 36.

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