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title: O.C.G.A. § 50-18-27. Responsibilities of reporter; subject to dismissal if reports not published within six months of delivery.
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# O.C.G.A. § 50-18-27. Responsibilities of reporter; subject to dismissal if reports not published within six months of delivery.

(a) The reporter shall furnish to the publisher the manuscript of the decisions, read the proof and correct the same, and furnish for each volume an index of the cases reported.

(b) If the reporter shall fail to publish the volumes of reports within six months of the time of the delivery to him of the last of the decisions to be included in a particular volume, he shall be subject to immediate dismissal unless good cause for such delay is shown to the satisfaction of a panel composed of three Justices of the Supreme Court appointed by the Chief Justice and two Judges of the Court of Appeals appointed by the Chief Judge.

## History

Laws 1845, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 452; Code 1863, § 223; Code 1868, § 217; Code 1873, § 231; Code 1882, § 231; Civil Code 1895, § 1093; Civil Code 1910, § 1362; Ga. L. 1920, p. 237, § 6; Code 1933, §§ 90-210, 90-211; Code 1933, § 90-207, enacted by Ga. L. 1972, p. 460, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1432, § 3; Ga. L. 2010, p. 838, § 7/SB 388.