2021 Georgia Code
Title 15 - Courts
Chapter 21A - Judicial Accounting
§ 15-21A-3. Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority as Custodial Trustee

1. As used in this Code section the term "court" means all trial courts within this state including, but not limited to, superior, juvenile, state, magistrate, probate, municipal, and special courts, whether called mayor's courts, recorder's courts, police courts, civil courts, traffic courts, or miscellaneous courts or any other trial court created in this state under any other name.
2. The authority shall act as collecting and remitting agent with respect to the costs, fees, and surcharges for certain costs, fees, or surcharges by any clerk of court or other officer or agent of any court. The authority in performing this function shall receive and disburse such funds only in the capacity of a custodial trustee, and such funds shall not in the process of receipt and disbursement become funds of the authority. The costs, fees, and surcharges subject to this Code section are:
   1. The additional divorce case filing fee under Code Section 15-6-77.4 and the additional marriage license fee under Code Section 15-9-60.1;
   2. The surcharge on fines and bonds imposed for the training of law enforcement and prosecutorial officers and for indigent defense purposes under Code Section 15-21-73;
   3. The additional penalties imposed in cases of driving under the influence for purposes of state crime victims compensation under Code Section 15-21-112;
   4. The additional penalties imposed in cases of driving under the influence for purposes of the Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund under Code Section 15-21-149;
   5. Fees collected by the courts under Code Section 42-8-34; and
   6. Local victim assistance funds collected pursuant to Article 8 of Chapter 21 of this title.

(Code 1981, §15-21A-3, enacted by Ga. L. 2004, Ex. Sess., p. ES3, § 10/HB 1EX.)