O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 41-3-12 (2019)

Contempt proceedings; punishment for contempt of court

✓ 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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(a) In the event of the violation of any injunction granted under this chapter, the court may summarily try and punish the offender. The proceedings shall be commenced by filing with the clerk of the court an information, under oath, setting out the alleged facts constituting such violation, upon which the court or judge shall cause a warrant to be issued for the arrest of the offender. The trial may be had upon affidavits, or either party may demand the production and oral examination of witnesses.

(b) A party found guilty of violating the provisions of an injunction shall be punished as for contempt in the discretion of the judge.

History

Ga. L. 1917, p. 177, § 4; Code 1933, § 72-308.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 58 Am. Jur. 2d, Nuisances, § 298 et seq.. C.J.S. 43A C.J.S., Injunctions, § 309 et seq. ALR. Reversal, modification, dismissal, disso-

lution, or resettlement of injunction order or judgment as affecting prior disobedience as contempt, 148 A.L.R. 1024. Use of affidavits to establish contempt, 79 A.L.R.2d 657.

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