CHAPTER 10 - MAGISTRATE COURTS
- ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 15-10-1 - Creation of magistrate courts
- § 15-10-2 - Jurisdiction
- § 15-10-2.1 - Jurisdiction to try certain cases involving litter
- § 15-10-3 - Oath and commission of magistrate, constable, and clerk
- § 15-10-4 - Sessions of court to be held as necessary
- § 15-10-5 - Provision of facilities and supplies by county
- § 15-10-6 - Adoption of local court rules
- § 15-10-7 - Council of Magistrate Court Judges
- § 15-10-8 - Authority of retired magistrate to perform marriage ceremonies
- ARTICLE 2 - MAGISTRATES
- § 15-10-20 - Number; selection; term; filling vacancies; chief magistrate; bonds; certain judges removed by federal court order to become special judges
- § 15-10-20.1 - Qualifying in absentia for magistrates serving on active military duty
- § 15-10-21 - Powers and duties of chief magistrate
- § 15-10-22 - Qualifications of magistrates; restrictions on practice of law
- § 15-10-23 - Minimum compensation; annual salary; increases; supplements
- § 15-10-23.1 - Monthly contingent expense allowance for the operation of the office of magistrate court
- § 15-10-24 - Discipline, removal, and involuntary retirement
- § 15-10-25 - Training requirements; payment of training costs
- § 15-10-26 - Conflicts between local ordinances and local Acts
- § 15-10-27 - Continuation of certain county civil court officials as magistrate court officials
- ARTICLE 3 - CIVIL PROCEEDINGS
- § 15-10-40 - Applicability of article
- § 15-10-41 - No jury trials; appeal
- § 15-10-42 - Civil Practice Act inapplicable to magistrate courts
- § 15-10-43 - Statement of claim; service of process; answer to claim; default judgments; opening of default; relief in magistrate court
- § 15-10-44 - Trial procedure
- § 15-10-45 - Compulsory and permissive counterclaims
- § 15-10-46 - Ordering deferred partial payment of judgment
- § 15-10-47 - Effect, recordation, execution, and enforcement of money judgments; fee for recordation
- § 15-10-48 - Form of statement of claim, verification, and notice
- § 15-10-49 - Procedure in attachment, garnishment, dispossessory, and distress warrant proceedings
- § 15-10-50 - Propounding of interrogatories to judgment debtor; form; contempt; authorized discovery procedures
- § 15-10-51 - Authorizing clerks to sign notices and summonses
- § 15-10-52 - Party name in action
- § 15-10-53 - Filing documents by electronic means
- ARTICLE 4 - VIOLATION OF ORDINANCES OF COUNTIES AND STATE AUTHORITIES
- § 15-10-60 - Applicability of article; suspended sentences
- § 15-10-61 - No right to trial by jury; right of removal to state or superior court
- § 15-10-62 - Prosecution upon citation or accusation; service; arrest
- § 15-10-63 - Use of citations; arrests
- § 15-10-63.1 - Cash bonds
- § 15-10-64 - Execution upon unpaid fines; sheriff to receive sentenced persons
- § 15-10-65 - Certiorari to superior court
- § 15-10-66 - Prosecuting attorney
- ARTICLE 5 - FEES AND COSTS
- § 15-10-80 - Filing fee; service of process costs; writ of fieri facias fee; costs taxed to losing party
- § 15-10-81 - Costs upon conviction of violation of ordinance
- § 15-10-82 - Hearing fee on application for search or arrest warrant or deposit account fraud citation; no fee assessed against victim
- § 15-10-83 - Constables' fees for levies and judicial sales
- § 15-10-84 - Fee for administering oath
- § 15-10-85 - Fees and costs to be deposited into county treasury
- § 15-10-86 - Law library fees
- § 15-10-87 - Magistrate court filing fee to be transferred upon transfer of case to state or superior court
- ARTICLE 6 - CONSTABLES, CLERK, AND OTHER COURT PERSONNEL
- § 15-10-100 - Appointment of constables; compensation; chief constable
- § 15-10-101 - Eligibility of constables
- § 15-10-102 - Powers and duties of constables
- § 15-10-103 - Constables' power to arrest
- § 15-10-104 - Exemption of constables from peace officer training and employment laws
- § 15-10-105 - Selection of clerk; compensation; eligibility
- § 15-10-105.1 - Powers and duties of clerk
- § 15-10-105.2 - Monthly contingent expense allowance for the operation of the office of magistrate court
- § 15-10-106 - Appointment of other court personnel; compensation
- ARTICLE 7 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
- ARTICLE 8 - MAGISTRATE TRAINING
- § 15-10-130 - Short title
- § 15-10-131 - Definitions
- § 15-10-132 - Creation of Georgia Magistrate Courts Training Council
- § 15-10-133 - Oath; certificate of appointment
- § 15-10-134 - Officers; quorum; minutes; annual report
- § 15-10-135 - Compensation and reimbursement of members
- § 15-10-136 - Powers and duties
- § 15-10-137 - Training requirements of certified magistrates
- ARTICLE 9 - MAGISTRATE COURT SERVING AS MUNICIPAL COURT
- § 15-10-150 - Contract with municipality
- § 15-10-151 - Services provided through office of magistrate
- § 15-10-152 - Municipal jurisdiction
- § 15-10-153 - Styling of municipal court judges, officers, pleadings, and records
- § 15-10-154 - Applicability of municipal charter and ordinances
- § 15-10-155 - Exceptions
- ARTICLE 10 - DEPOSIT ACCOUNT FRAUD PROSECUTIONS
- ARTICLE 11 - SENIOR MAGISTRATES
- ARTICLE 12 - REMITTANCE OF INTEREST FROM FUNDS
- ARTICLE 13 - TRIALS OF CERTAIN MISDEMEANORS