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Title 5. APPEAL AND ERROR · Chapter 3. SUPERIOR AND STATE COURT APPELLATE PRACTICE

5-3-13. Filings in court with appropriate venue and jurisdiction; transfers.

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

  1. (a)

    A petitioner shall file a petition for review in the superior or state court where venue and jurisdiction are proper as prescribed by the laws and the Constitution of this state.#

  2. (b)

    Upon a finding by a lower judicatory, a reviewing court, the Court of Appeals, or the Supreme Court that venue is improper or jurisdiction is lacking for any petition for review, the clerk of the applicable court shall promptly transfer a petition for review to a court where venue and jurisdiction are proper in accordance with the rules and procedures applicable to the transferring court.#

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, § 5-3-13, enacted by Ga. L. 2022, p. 767, § 1-1/HB 916.

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

Text read from t4-6-(v4)-pdf.pdf, Volume V4, 2013 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 64 to 65; merge action: added; file SHA-256 9d1b53199f62.