2021 Georgia Code
Title 40 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Chapter 13 - Prosecution of Traffic Offenses
Article 2 - Arrests, Trials, and Appeals
- § 40-13-20. "Municipal Courts" Defined
- § 40-13-21. General Powers and Jurisdiction of Probate and Municipal Courts; Assistance of the District Attorney or Solicitor
- § 40-13-22. Jurisdiction Over Offenses Under Code Section 40-2-8
- § 40-13-23. Waiver of Jury Trial; Withdrawal of Waiver
- § 40-13-24. Indictment or Accusation Not Required; Docket
- § 40-13-25. Costs
- § 40-13-26. How Sentences for Traffic Offenses Served; Disposition of Fines and Costs; Definition of "Urban Interstate System"
- § 40-13-27. Records to Be Kept
- § 40-13-28. Appeal to Superior Court; Bond
- § 40-13-29. Jurisdiction Exclusive
- § 40-13-30. Authority to Make Arrests
- § 40-13-31. Arresting Fees
- § 40-13-32. Restrictions on Ability of Courts to Change or Modify Traffic Law Sentences or Judgments
- § 40-13-33. Limitation on Habeas Corpus Challenge of Misdemeanor Traffic Conviction
- Judicial procedure relating to juvenile traffic offenses, §§ 15-11-49,15-11-50.
Transfer of charge to state tribunal, § 40-6-376.
Law reviews.- For note, "You have the Right to Free Speech: Retaliatory Arrests and the Pretext of Probable Cause," see 51 Ga. L. Rev. 607 (2017).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Courts from which direct appeal would lie.
- Courts named in O.C.G.A. Art. 2, Ch. 13, T. 40 from which direct appeal would lie are probate courts, municipal courts, and police courts. The act provides that police courts shall be construed to include mayor's courts or recorder's courts, or like municipal courts by whatever names called. Henson v. DeKalb County, 158 Ga. App. 348, 280 S.E.2d 393 (1981).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR.
- Entrapment to commit traffic offense, 34 A.L.R.4th 1167.
