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2018 Georgia Code 15-7-22 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 15-7-22 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 15-7-22

TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 7. State Courts of Counties, 15-7-1 through 15-7-85.

ARTICLE 2 JUDGES

15-7-22. Compensation.

Judges of the state courts shall be compensated from county funds as provided by local law. The county governing authority is authorized to supplement the compensation thus fixed to be paid to the judges of the state court of that county.

(Code 1981, §15-7-22, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 1419, § 2.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

County not entitled to reimbursement of salary supplement that was not paid in violation of law.

- In a dispute between a county and a county state court judge over a supplement to the judge's salary, summary judgment for the judge was proper on the county's claim for reimbursement of the judge's salary supplement because the county failed to show that the supplement was paid with the total absence or want of power. Even if the supplement was paid in violation of the Open Meetings Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-14-1 et seq., the county's counterclaim was filed well outside the 90-day limitation period in § 50-14-1(b)(2). Heiskell v. Roberts, 342 Ga. App. 109, 802 S.E.2d 385 (2017).

Cited in Victoria's Secret Stores, Inc. v. West, 200 Ga. App. 402, 408 S.E.2d 180 (1991); Cramer v. Spalding County, 261 Ga. 570, 409 S.E.2d 30 (1991).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 15-7-22

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Cramer v. Cnty. of Spalding, 409 S.E.2d 30 (Ga. 1991).

Cited 21 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Sep 26, 1991 | 261 Ga. 570

...on of local law. Nor does the inherent power of the courts permit the creation of an expense fund based on court fines under the facts of this case. State court judges and solicitors are compensated from county funds as provided by local law. OCGA §§ 15-7-22, 15-7-24(d)....
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Heiskell Et Al. v. Roberts, 295 Ga. 795 (Ga. 2014).

Cited 15 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Oct 6, 2014 | 764 S.E.2d 368

...We note, however, that the claim may depend at least in part on whether the annualized $40,000 supplement paid to Roberts above the $60,000 base salary established by local law was properly approved and documented in a budget or other county ordinance. OCGA § 15-7-22 says, “Judges of the state courts shall be compensated from county funds as provided by local law. . . .,” which for Walker County says that “[t]he judge of said state court shall receive a salary of $60,000.00 per annum,” Ga. L. 1994, p. 3726, § 1. OCGA § 15-7-22 also says, “The county governing authority is authorized to supplement the compensation thus fixed to be paid to the judges of the state court of that county,” but even in a county with a sole commissioner form of government, ordinance...
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Cowen v. Clayton Cnty., 306 Ga. 698 (Ga. 2019).

Cited 1 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Sep 3, 2019

...to the two-year limitations period contained in OCGA § 9-3-22, and any claims for back pay that accrued more than two years before Cowen filed her mandamus action on October 6, 2017, are time barred.4 See Adams, supra, 256 Ga. at 620. 3 See OCGA § 15-7-22. 4 Cowen makes no argument that the limitations period would somehow have been tolled for any reason in this case, and we reject Cowen’s claim that her mandamus action was not subject to the two-year limitations period contained...
...Ordinance, and (b) even if it did, whether Cowen had a clear legal right to be paid more, notwithstanding these provisions, pursuant to the requirements of Ga. Const. of 1983, Art. VI, Sec. VII, Par. V. (a) Proper Calculation of Cowen’s Compensation Pursuant to OCGA § 15-7-22, “[j]udges of the state courts shall be compensated from county funds as provided by local law....