O.C.G.A.
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.
The governing authority of any county may contract with the governing authority of any municipality within the county for the county to furnish municipal court services to the municipality as authorized by this article; and the governing authorities of municipalities are likewise authorized to enter into such contracts with county governing authorities.
History
Code 1981, § 15-7-80, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 1161, § 1.
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Judge was not serving in municipal capacity. - Even though a state court judge had authority to sit as a municipal court judge pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 15-7-80, but was not, in fact, sitting as a municipal judge in the prosecution of a municipal ordinance violation, the judge
could not exercise concurrent jurisdiction and authority as a municipal judge, and the prosecutor’s failure to introduce the ordinance rendered the evidence insufficient as a matter of law to warrant a conviction. Reed v. State, 229 Ga. App. 817, 495 S.E.2d 313 (1998).
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
2
cases, 1997–1997 · leading case:
Poole v. State, 494 S.E.2d 251 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997).
Poole v. State, 494 S.E.2d 251 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997).
· cites it 29× “Rather, the dissent argues, when the state court convicted Poole, it was serving as a municipal court pursuant to OCGA § 15-7-80 et seq. For the following reasons, we disagree with both assertions.”
Reed v. State, 495 S.E.2d 313 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997).
· cites it 4× “Such is proper pursuant to OCGA § 15-7-80. However, an incorrect application of the terms of the statute and the contract has repeatedly created an unclear mingling of these judicial identities during the prosecution of criminal matters.”
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