Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 47. RETIREMENT AND PENSIONS · Chapter 8. SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES RETIREMENT FUND OF GEORGIA; SENIOR JUDGES (EMERITUS) · Article 4. APPOINTMENT AS SENIOR JUDGE; COMPENSATION AND DUTIES

47-8-61. Term of office as senior judge; power of Governor to call upon senior judges to serve as superior court judges.

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

All persons appointed as senior judges under this chapter shall hold such office for life. The Governor may call upon such judges to serve as judges of the superior courts when the regular judge for some reason is unable to serve. Such judges are also authorized to serve in the superior courts as may be otherwise provided by law.

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. 1945, p. 363, § 5; Ga. L. 1951, p. 493, § 1; Ga. L. 1958, p. 318, § 1; Ga. L. 1973, p. 911, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 722, § 1.

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Text read from t47-(v35)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V35, 2010 edition, page 480; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 670b44b1738a.