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2018 Georgia Code 17-12-25.1 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 17 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Section 12. Legal Defense For Indigents, 17-12-1 through 17-12-128.

ARTICLE 2 PUBLIC DEFENDERS

17-12-25.1. Accountability court supplement.

  1. Whenever a circuit has implemented a drug court division, mental health court division, or veterans court division, then on and after January 1, 2016, the state shall pay the circuit public defender in such circuit an annual accountability court supplement of $6,000.00. Such supplement shall be paid from state funds by the Georgia Public Defender Council in equal monthly installments as regular compensation.
  2. Notwithstanding Code Sections 17-12-27 and 17-12-28, the accountability court salary supplement paid pursuant to this Code section shall not be included in any calculation of compensation paid to assistant circuit public defenders or investigators that is measured as a percentage of a circuit public defender's salary.
  3. When a local law provides for a salary to be paid based on a percentage of, total compensation for, or similar mathematical relationship to a circuit public defender's salary, the accountability court salary supplement paid pursuant to this Code section shall not be included in the calculation of compensation to be paid by a county, municipality, or consolidated government.
  4. Notwithstanding subsection (b) of Code Section 17-12-25 and Code Section 17-12-30, on and after January 1, 2016, no county or counties comprising the circuit shall increase an aggregate county salary supplement paid to the circuit public defender or a state-paid position appointed pursuant to this article, if such supplement is $50,000.00 or more.

(Code 1981, §17-12-25.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 919, § 1-8/HB 279; Ga. L. 2016, p. 864, § 17/HB 737.)

Effective date.

- This Code section became effective January 1, 2016.

The 2016 amendment, effective May 3, 2016, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted "Standards" following "Georgia Public Defender" in the last sentence of subsection (a).

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2015, p. 919, § 4-1(b)(1) and (2)/HB 279, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "(b)(1) Part I of this Act shall become effective only if funds are appropriated for purposes of Part I of this Act in an appropriations Act enacted at the 2015 regular session of the General Assembly.

"(2) If funds are so appropriated, then Part I of this Act shall become effective on July 1, 2015, for purposes of making the initial appointments of the Court of Appeals Judges created by Part I of this Act, and for all other purposes, Part I of this Act shall become effective on January 1, 2016." Funds were appropriated at the 2015 session of the General Assembly.

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