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2018 Georgia Code 15-6-91 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 6. Superior Courts, 15-6-1 through 15-6-100.

ARTICLE 2 CLERKS OF SUPERIOR COURTS

15-6-91. Effect of salary provisions on local legislation.

All local legislation in effect on April 1, 1973, or enacted subsequent to April 1, 1973, and affecting compensation for clerks of superior courts of the various counties shall be of full force and effect except where such local legislation provides for a salary lower than the salary provided in Code Sections 15-6-88 through 15-6-90 and this Code section, in which event such Code sections shall prevail.

(Ga. L. 1973, p. 256, § 4; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 15; Ga. L. 2012, p. 173, § 2-5/HB 665.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Repeal of local acts.

- If a local act establishing salaries for certain officials was repealed by O.C.G.A. § 15-6-91, the 1975 and 1977 amendments to that local act providing for cost-of-living increases should be read in pari materia with the amended act and should also be considered repealed by O.C.G.A. § 15-6-91. Morgan v. Woodard, 253 Ga. 751, 325 S.E.2d 369 (1985).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 15-6-91

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Morgan v. Woodard, 253 Ga. 751 (Ga. 1985).

Cited 3 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jan 30, 1985 | 325 S.E.2d 369

...See OCGA § 15-6-88 et seq. The legislation, by its own terms, did not repeal by implication any local law. It did, however, expressly repeal local laws which provided for “a salary lower than the salary provided [by the minimum salary act].” See OCGA § 15-6-91. Appellees noted that appellants received higher salaries under the new legislation and concluded that all local legislation establishing the old salaries was repealed.1 They informed appellants that the *752cost of living increases had been repealed along with the legislation establishing the old base salaries....