O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 17-8-29 (2019)
Party or party’s counsel in attendance at meeting of Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia as grounds for granting continuance
✓ 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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Should any member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia or any member of the State Board of Education be engaged at the time of any meeting of the board as counsel or party in any case pending in the courts of this state and should the case be called for trial during the regular session of the board, the member’s absence from attending the session shall be good ground for a postponement or continuance of the case until the session of the board has ended.
History
Ga. L. 1931, p. 7, § 56; Code 1933, § 81-1404; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1406, § 2; Ga. L. 1997, p. 143, § 17.
Annotations
Cross references. - Corresponding provision relating to civil procedure, § 9-10-151.
RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 17 C.J.S., Continuances, §§ 43, 52.