2021 Georgia Code
Title 15 - Courts
Chapter 21 - Payment and Disposition of Fines and Forfeitures
Article 4 - Peace Officer, Prosecutor, and Indigent Defense Funding
- § 15-21-70. Short Title
- § 15-21-71. Implementation of Constitutional Provision
- § 15-21-72. Legislative Intent
- § 15-21-73. Penalty to Be Imposed in Certain Criminal and Quasi-Criminal and Traffic Cases and Upon Violation of Bond
- § 15-21-74. Assessment and Collection of Penalties; Transfer of Payments to Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority; Quarterly Accounting
- § 15-21-75. Penalty for Delinquent Remission of Moneys
- § 15-21-76. Failure or Refusal to Remit Moneys
- § 15-21-77. Appropriations for Law Enforcement or Prosecutorial Officers' Training
- For article, "Courts: Juvenile Justice Reform," see 30 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 63 (2013). For article, "Symposium Protect and Serve: Perspectives on 21st Century Policing January 20, 2017: Urban Policing and Public Policy - The Prosecutor's Role," see 51 Ga. L. Rev. 1179 (2017). For article, "Raising the Bar: Indigent Defense and the Right to a Partisan Lawyer," see 69 Mercer L. Rev. 697 (2018). For article, "The Politics of Ethics," see 69 Mercer L. Rev. 753 (2018). For article, "Privileging Public Defense Research," see 69 Mercer L. Rev. 771 (2018).
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Game and Fish Code prosecutions.
- O.C.G.A. Art. 4, Ch. 21, T. 15 applies to cases prosecuted under the Georgia Game and Fish Code, O.C.G.A. T. 27. 1985 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U85-19.
Implementation of article.
- O.C.G.A. ยง 48-2-12, which authorizes the commissioner of revenue to adopt rules and regulations for the enforcement of the revenue title and, with respect to other statutes outside of the revenue title, to prescribe forms which "he deems necessary for the administration and enforcement of . . . any law which it is his duty to administer," would permit the commissioner to prescribe forms to be used to administer and enforce that part of O.C.G.A. Art. 4, Ch. 21, T. 15 which requires that moneys collected pursuant to that article be paid to the commissioner and that part which requires the department to pay those funds into the general treasury and make reports to the Office of Planning and Budget and the Legislative Budget Office. 1983 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 83-80.
Since the Supreme Court may through the court's rules regulate the practice of law and the court's own operations and procedures and is also required by Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VI, Sec. IX, Para. I to "adopt and publish uniform court rules and record-keeping rules which shall provide for the speedy, efficient, and inexpensive resolution of disputes and prosecutions," it is feasible that the Supreme Court might under this authority adopt rules to implement O.C.G.A. Art. 4, Ch. 21, T. 15. 1983 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 83-80.
