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O.C.G.A. § 15-18-16 — Substitution of assistant on death or resignation of district attorney | Georgia Code

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TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 18. Prosecuting Attorneys, 15-18-1 through 15-18-99.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-18-16. Substitution of assistant on death or resignation of district attorney.

Upon the death or resignation of a district attorney, the chief assistant district attorney or, if there is no chief assistant district attorney, the assistant district attorney senior in time of service shall perform the duties of the deceased or resigned district attorney in his or her name until such official's successor is appointed or elected and qualified. An assistant district attorney performing the duties of a deceased or resigned district attorney shall be compensated as provided for acting district attorneys in subsection (b) of Code Section 15-18-15.

(Code 1933, § 24-2919, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 1257, § 8; Ga. L. 1979, p. 639, § 2; Ga. L. 2006, p. 414, § 3/HB 268.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Hudson v. State, 248 Ga. 397, 283 S.E.2d 271 (1981).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Power of assistant or deputy prosecuting or district attorney to file information, or to sign or prosecute it in his own name, 80 A.L.R.2d 1067.

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