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Title 47. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS · Chapter 25. MAGISTRATES RETIREMENT FUND · Article 2. ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT

47-25-20. Board of Commissioners created; members; term of office.

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

  1. (a)

    There is created the Board of Commissioners of the Magistrates Retirement Fund of Georgia. The board shall consist of seven members as follows:#

    1. (1)

      The Governor or the Governor’s designee;#

    2. (2)

      An appointee of the Governor who is not the Attorney General; and#

    3. (3)

      Five chief magistrates who are members of the fund.#

  2. (b)

    The members of the board provided for by paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of this Code section shall be appointed by the Governor. The first such members shall be appointed by the Governor to take office on July 1, 2006, for initial terms as follows: one such member shall be appointed for one year; two such members shall be appointed for terms of two years; and two such members shall be appointed for terms of three years. Thereafter, the Governor shall appoint successors upon the expiration of the respective terms of office for terms of three years. All such members shall serve until their successors are appointed and qualified. Such members shall be eligible for reappointment to successive terms of office as members of the board.#

  3. (c)

    The board shall elect a chairperson from among its own membership to serve for a term as established by rules of the board. Four members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. All members of the board shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for travel and other expenses incurred by them in carrying out their duties as members of the board.#

  4. (d)

    In the event of a vacancy in the membership of the board, the remaining members of the board shall appoint a chief magistrate who is a member of the fund to fill such vacancy for the unexpired term.#

  5. (e)

    The Council of Magistrate Court Judges shall be authorized to submit the names of nominees for each position on the board appointed by the Governor pursuant to this Code section. The Governor may consider such nominees in making such appointments, but it is specifically provided that all such appointments shall be at the sole discretion of the Governor, and the Governor shall not be required to make any appointments from nominees made by the Council of Magistrate Court Judges.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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, § 47-25-20, enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 246, § 1/SB 244; Ga. L. 2014, p. 835, § 2/HB 646.

Amendments

The 2014 amendment, effective July 1, 2014, deleted “full-time” following “Five” in paragraph (a)(3); and deleted “full-time” preceding “chief magistrate” in subsection (d).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t47-(v35)-pdf.pdf, Volume V35, 2010 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 246 to 247; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 b2fa8236f7f1.