O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 38-2-276 (2019)

Exemptions from jury duty and street tax

✓ 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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Officers and enlisted personnel of the organized militia shall be exempt from street tax and, while serving on ordered active duty, from jury duty, any local or special laws to the contrary notwithstanding. The commanding officer of each or any force of the organized militia shall furnish each member of his command applying for the same such certificate of membership as may be prescribed by the adjutant general, signed by the commanding officer, which certificate shall be accepted by any court as proof of exemption as provided by this Code section. The certificate shall be good only for 30 days after which it bears date.

History

Ga. L. 1916, p. 158, § 3; Code 1933, § 86-701; Ga. L. 1951, p. 311, § 24; Ga. L. 1955, p. 10, § 83.

Annotations

Cross references. - Exemptions from

jury duty generally, § 15-12-1.1. Authority to levy and collect street tax, § 48-13-3.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Section repealed in part. - Former Code 1933, § 86-701 (see O.C.G.A. § 38-2-276) was in conflict with former Code 1933, § 59-112 (see O.C.G.A. § 15-12-1 (now O.C.G.A. § 15-12-1.1))

and was therefore repealed insofar as it purported to grant specific exemptions from jury duty to members of the organized militia. 1967 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 67-296.