O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 17-12-50 (2019)
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✓ 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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As used in this article, the term:
(1) ‘‘Paid in part’’ means payment by a county or municipality for a part of the cost of the provision of indigent defense services pursuant to a contract with a circuit public defender office as set forth in subsection (d) of Code Section 17-12-23. The term shall not include payment by a county or municipality for office space and other supplies as set forth in Code Section 17-12-34.
(2) ‘‘Public defender’’ means an attorney employed by a circuit public defender office or any other attorney who is paid from public funds to represent an indigent person in a criminal case.
History
Code 1981, § 17-12-50, enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 710, § 6/SB 203; Ga. L. 2008, p. 846, § 39/HB 1245.