Título 15. COURTS · Capítulo 9. PROBATE COURTS · Artículo 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
15-9-11. Special election to fill vacancy; term of individual elected.
Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
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- (a)
When a vacancy occurs in the office of judge of the probate court in any county, it shall be the duty of the individual who assumes the duties of the judge, as provided in Code Section 15-9-10, within ten days after the vacancy occurs, to order a special election for the purpose of filling the vacancy. The election superintendent shall give notice of the special election by publication in the newspaper in which the citations of the judge of the probate court are published. The special election shall be held in accordance with Chapter 2 of Title 21.#
- (b)
Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this Code section, if the vacancy occurs after January 1 in the last year of the term of office of the judge of probate court, the individual assuming the duties of the judge of the probate court shall be commissioned for and shall serve the remainder of the unexpired term of office.#
- (c)
If a special election is held, the individual elected to fill the vacancy shall be commissioned for the unexpired term.#
History
Ga. L. 1851-52, p. 50, § 1; Ga. L. 1851-52, p. 91, § 13; Code 1863, §§ 298, 299; Code 1868, §§ 358, 359; Ga. L. 1871-72, p. 28, § 1; Code 1873, §§ 323, 324; Code 1882, §§ 323, 324; Civil Code 1895, §§ 4224, 4225; Civil Code 1910, §§ 4782, 4783; Code 1933, §§ 24-1707, 24-1708; Ga. L. 1951, p. 129, § 1; Ga. L. 1969, p. 290, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 827, § 3/HB 495; Ga. L. 2018, p. 356, § 1-11/SB 436. The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, substituted ‘‘individual’’ for ‘‘person’’ in the first sentence of subsection (a) and in the middle of subsection (b); substituted ‘‘The election superintendent’’ for ‘‘He or she’’ at the beginning of the second sentence of subsection (a); designated the fourth sentence of subsection (a) as subsection (b), and, in subsection (b), substituted ‘‘subsection (a) of this Code section’’ for ‘‘the provisions of this subsection’’ near the middle; redesignated former subsection (b) as present subsection (c), and, in subsection (c), substituted ‘‘If a special election is held, the individual’’ for ‘‘The person’’ at the beginning.
Cross references
Filling of vacancies in public office generally, § 45-5-1 et seq.
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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Texto leído de t15-ch1-11a-(v13)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volumen V13, edición 2020, páginas 431 a 432; acción de fusión: carried; SHA-256 del archivo 1f1f034443c3.