O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-9-65 (2019)

Longevity increases

✓ 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 amounts provided in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of Code Section 15-9-63 and Code Section 15-9-64, as increased by paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Code Section 15-9-63, shall be increased by multiplying said amounts by the percentage which equals 5 percent times the number of completed four-year terms of office served by any judge of a probate court after December 31, 1976, effective the first day of January following the completion of each such period of service. This Code section shall not be construed to affect any local legislation except when the local legislation provides for a salary lower than the salary provided in Code Sections 15-9-63, 15-9-64, 15-9-66, and this Code section, in which event Code Sections 15-9-63, 15-9-64, 15-9-66, and this Code section shall prevail.

History

Ga. L. 1974, p. 455, § 3; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1953, § 3; Ga. L. 1981, p. 518, § 3; Ga. L. 1989, p. 801, § 2; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 15; Ga. L. 1992, p. 1478, § 4; Ga. L. 1994, p. 620, § 4; Ga. L. 2018, p. 356, § 1-26/SB 436. The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, substituted ‘‘when the local legislation provides for a salary lower than the salary provided in Code Sections 15-9-63, 15-9-64, 15-9-66, and this Code section, in

which event Code Sections 15-9-63, 15-9-64, 15-9-66, and this Code section shall prevail’’ for ‘‘where the local legislation provides for a salary lower than the salary provided in Code Sections 15-9-63, 15-9-64, this Code section, and Code Sections 15-9-66 and 15-9-67, in which event Code Sections 15-9-63, 15-9-64, this Code section, and Code Sections 15-9-66 and 15-9-67 shall prevail’’ in the second sentence of this Code section.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Salary increase is based on full terms, not partial terms. - O.C.G.A. § 15-9-65 provides for longevity salary increases for judges of probate courts

based upon completed four-year terms of office and not upon partial terms of office served. 1981 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U81-3.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2015–2015 · leading case: Lewis, Judge v. Chatham Cnty. Bd. of Commissioners, 779 S.E.2d 371 (Ga. 2015).

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Lewis, Judge v. Chatham Cnty. Bd. of Commissioners, 779 S.E.2d 371 (Ga. 2015). · cites it 2× “3 OCGA § 15-9-65 provides certain longevity pay increases to probate judges; however, these increases are not applicable to judges who receive a salary under local law which exceeds the statewide minimum of OCGA § 15-9-63.”

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