2021 Georgia Code
Title 15 - Courts
Chapter 9 - Probate Courts
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 15-9-9. When Other Security Ordered; Failure to Comply
If, at any time during the term of the judge of the probate court, it is made satisfactorily to appear to the judge of the superior court that the bond of the judge of the probate court is insufficient or the security thereof insolvent, it shall be his or her duty to require other security. On failure of the judge of the probate court to comply with the order of the superior court judge, a vacancy shall be declared as if such judge had failed to give security in the first instance.
(Ga. L. 1871-72, p. 53, § 2; Code 1873, § 322; Code 1882, § 322; Civil Code 1895, § 4223; Civil Code 1910, § 4781; Code 1933, § 24-1706; Ga. L. 2018, p. 356, § 1-9/SB 436.)
The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, inserted "or her" near the end of the first sentence, and substituted "such judge" for "he" near the end of the second sentence.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
C.J.S.
- 48A C.J.S., Judges, § 22.
ALR.- Unauthorized practice of law as contempt, 40 A.L.R.6th 463.
