Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

36-32-4. Authority of municipal corporations to provide for forfeiture of appearance bonds.

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Any municipal corporation shall have full power and authority to provide, by ordinance, for the forfeiture of bonds given by offenders for their appearance before municipal courts and to provide for the collection of the same from the principal and sureties on such bonds by judgment, execution, and sale.

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. 1880-81, p. 176, § 1; Code 1933, § 69-206.

Law reviews

For article, “Cities and Towns in Georgia: A Distinction with a Difference?,” see 14 Mercer L. Rev. 385 (1963). For note, “Bail in Georgia: Elimination of ‘Double Bonding’: A Partially Solved Problem,” see 8 Ga. St. B. J. 220 (1971).

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