Bill Text: GA SB352 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Prosecuting Attorneys; provide; probate courts, municipal courts, and courts exercising municipal court jurisdiction; process of such employment
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-04-11 - Effective Date [SB352 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-SB352-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Prosecuting Attorneys; provide; probate courts, municipal courts, and courts exercising municipal court jurisdiction; process of such employment
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-04-11 - Effective Date [SB352 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-SB352-Comm_Sub.html
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The
Senate Judiciary Committee offered the following substitute to SB
352:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Chapter 18 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to prosecuting attorneys, so as to provide for prosecuting attorneys in
municipal courts and courts exercising municipal court jurisdiction; to provide
for the process of such employment; to provide for related matters; to repeal
conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Chapter
18 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
prosecuting attorneys, is amended by adding a new article to read as
follows:
"ARTICLE
5
15-18-90.
(a)
Municipal courts and courts exercising municipal court jurisdiction shall be
authorized to employ full-time or part-time prosecuting attorneys to represent
the jurisdiction in criminal proceedings in such court. The decision to employ
prosecuting attorneys and the length and nature of each prosecuting attorney's
employment shall be vested in the respective governing authority of the city
served by such court. Any costs associated with creating an office for a
prosecuting attorney, including approving personnel needs, shall be borne by the
respective governing authority of the city served by such court.
(b)
A prosecuting attorney in a municipal court or court exercising municipal court
jurisdiction may be known as the 'Solicitor of the ______ Court of
_______.'"
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.