TITLE 38 MILITARY, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, AND VETERANS AFFAIRS

Section 3. Emergency Management, 38-3-1 through 38-3-191.

ARTICLE 3 EMERGENCY POWERS

38-3-62. Suspension or tolling of deadlines and time schedules in event of judicial emergency.

An authorized judicial official in an order declaring a judicial emergency, or in an order modifying or extending a judicial emergency order, is authorized to suspend, toll, extend, or otherwise grant relief from deadlines or other time schedules or filing requirements imposed by otherwise applicable statutes, rules, regulations, or court orders, whether in civil or criminal cases or administrative matters, including, but not limited to:

1. A statute of limitation;
2. The time within which to issue a warrant;
3. The time within which to try a case for which a demand for speedy trial has been filed;
4. The time within which to hold a commitment hearing;
5. A deadline or other schedule regarding the detention of a juvenile;
6. The time within which to return a bill of indictment or an accusation or to bring a matter before a grand jury;
7. The time within which to file a writ of habeas corpus;
8. The time within which discovery or any aspect thereof is to be completed;
9. The time within which to serve a party;
10. The time within which to appeal or to seek the right to appeal any order, ruling, or other determination; and
11. Such other legal proceedings as determined to be necessary by the authorized judicial official.

(Code 1981, §38-3-62, enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 420, § 3; Ga. L. 2006, p. 893, § 6/HB 1421.)