O.C.G.A.
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.
There is created the office of senior judge of the superior courts. Any judge of the superior court who was appointed judge of the superior courts, emeritus prior to December 31, 1976, is redesignated as senior judge of the superior courts effective December 31, 1976. Any judge of the superior courts who is eligible for appointment as judge of the superior courts, emeritus on December 31, 1976, or who becomes eligible after that date shall be designated as senior judge of the superior courts upon accepting such appointment.
History
(Ga. L. 1945, p. 362, § 1; Ga. L. 1976, p. 586, § 31; Ga. L. 1982, p. 497, §§ 2, 3.)
Annotations
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Widow’s benefits option not available. - General Assembly did not intend to make available to senior judges the ‘‘widow’s benefits’’ option available under Ga. L. 1970, p.
249, §§ 1-4 (see O.C.G.A. § 47-8-67) to judges of the superior courts. 1970 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 70-101.
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 46 Am. Jur. 2d, Judges, § 3. 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 26 et seq.
C.J.S. - 48A C.J.S., Judges, § 15.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
3
cases, 1984–2017 · leading case:
Williams v. Heard, 805 S.E.2d 1 (Ga. 2017).
Williams v. Heard, 805 S.E.2d 1 (Ga. 2017).
· cites it 2× “586, 593; OCGA §§ 47-8-1, 47-8-40, and 47-8-41. Even as early as 1945, a judge of the superior court who desired to resign could accept appointment as a senior judge.”
State of Ga. v. McMillan, 319 S.E.2d 1 (Ga. 1984).
· cites it 2× “The 1945 Act, as since amended, has been codified in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated as § 47-8-1 et seq. The 1976 Act, as since amended, has been codified as OCGA § 47-9-1 et seq.”
Williams v. Heard (Ga. 2017).
· cites it 2× “586, 593; OCGA §§ 47-8-1, 47-8-40, and 47-8-41. Even as early as 1945, a judge of the superior court who desired to resign could accept appointment as a senior judge.”
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