O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-8-2 (2019)

Judge ineligible for municipal office or appointment

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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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It shall be illegal for the judge of any city court to also hold any municipal office or appointment in the city where the court is held.

History

Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 137, § 1; Code 1933, § 24-2203.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Nave v. State, 171 Ga. App. 165, 318 S.E.2d 753 (1984). OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL City attorney and judge of the recorder’s or police court are both municipal offices or appointments and thus fall

within the prohibition of O.C.G.A. § 15-8-2. 1982 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U82-25.