O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-4-1 (2019)

Term of office; oaths

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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The reporter of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals holds his office for the same term and on the same conditions as the clerk of the Supreme Court and, before entering upon his duties, must take the same oaths.

History

Laws 1845, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 452; Laws 1847, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 453; Code 1863, § 219; Code 1868, § 213; Code 1873, § 226; Code

1882, § 226; Civil Code 1895, § 5515; Civil Code 1910, § 6127; Code 1933, § 24-4201.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Simultaneous service of judicial secretary. - A judicial secretary appointed pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 15-6-25 may not simultaneously serve the same court as an official court reporter because

such an arrangement would prevent the secretary from complying with O.C.G.A. § 45-10-1 and providing the state with a full day’s work for a full day’s pay. 2016 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U16-2.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 20 Am. Jur. 2d, Courts, § 1 et seq.

C.J.S. - 21 C.J.S., Courts, § 121 et seq.