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2024 CODE OF GEORGIA
Title 15 - COURTS (§§ 15-1-1 — 15-25-3)
Chapter 6 - SUPERIOR COURTS (§§ 15-6-1 — 15-6-100)
Article 2 - CLERKS OF SUPERIOR COURTS (§§ 15-6-50 — 15-6-100)
- Section 15-6-50 - Clerk's term of office; qualifications; training requirements; appointment of clerk pro tempore during training
- Section 15-6-50.1 - Superior Court Clerks Training Council
- Section 15-6-50.2 - The Council of Superior Court Clerks of Georgia
- Section 15-6-50.3 - [Repealed] Criminal Case Data Exchange Board created; membership; operation; role; public access
- Section 15-6-51 - Eligibility to serve as other court clerk
- Section 15-6-52 - Practice of law restricted
- Section 15-6-53 - Appointment of clerk; actions by interim clerk; special elections
- Section 15-6-54 - [Repealed] Appointment by probate judge pending filling of vacancy; duration of appointment
- Section 15-6-55 - Emergency service by probate court judge; appointment of interim deputy clerk
- Section 15-6-56 - [Repealed] [Reserved] Election to fill vacancy; term of office; filling of vacancies in counties with chief deputy clerk
- Section 15-6-57 - Election to break tie
- Section 15-6-58 - Oath of office
- Section 15-6-59 - Bond; appointment of deputies
- Section 15-6-60 - Powers of clerks
- Section 15-6-60.1 - Location of retained records; request for access to records; contracting for retention; online access
- Section 15-6-61 - Duties of clerks generally; computerized record-keeping system
- Section 15-6-62 - Additional clerk duties
- Section 15-6-62.1 - Back-up records
- Section 15-6-63 - Obtaining of names of grantors and grantees prior to recordation of title transfer
- Section 15-6-64 - [Repealed] [Reserved] Duty to give notice to purchasers of real property in certain counties
- Section 15-6-65 - Entry of civil cases on dockets; order for trial
- Section 15-6-66 - Grantor-grantee index
- Section 15-6-67 - Recordation of plats and condominium plans; specifications
- Section 15-6-68 - Public access to maps, plats, and plans
- Section 15-6-69 - Effect of map and plat recordation requirements
- Section 15-6-70 - Recordation of bankruptcy petition, decree, or order; fees
- Section 15-6-71 - [Repealed] [Reserved] Record of sex criminal convictions; furnishing record to Georgia Bureau of Investigation
- Section 15-6-72 - Recordation and index of military service records; confidentiality
- Section 15-6-73 - Destruction of obsolete records
- Section 15-6-74 - Preservation of newspapers containing advertisements
- Section 15-6-75 - and 15-6-76 - [Reserved]
- Section 15-6-76.1 - Investing or depositing funds; depositing funds paid into court registry
- Section 15-6-77 - Fees; construction of other fee provisions
- Section 15-6-77.1 - [Repealed] Additional fees in counties with populations of 550,000 or more; disposition of such fees
- Section 15-6-77.2 - [Repealed] Costs for clerk's services in counties with populations of 640,000 or more; time for payment of costs; disposition of such costs
- Section 15-6-77.3 - [Repealed] Additional fees in counties with populations in unincorporated areas of 350,000 or more
- Section 15-6-77.4 - Additional divorce case filing fee for Children's Trust Fund
- Section 15-6-78 - Veterans not to be charged for recordation of discharge certificates
- Section 15-6-79 - [Repealed] [Reserved] Payment of unpaid costs in felony cases
- Section 15-6-80 - Payment of transcript costs to clerk before transmittal
- Section 15-6-81 - Failure to perform duty punishable as contempt
- Section 15-6-82 - Governor ordering investigation of clerk of court; suspension of clerk
- Section 15-6-83 - Clerk's liability
- Section 15-6-84 - Clerk's liability after retirement
- Section 15-6-85 - [Repealed] Clerks' offices subject to grand jury examination; written report
- Section 15-6-86 - Location of clerk's office in place other than courthouse; storage of archival or inactive records in different location; county documents exception
- Section 15-6-87 - Furnishing of fixtures, supplies, and equipment to clerk
- Section 15-6-87.1 - [Repealed] Participation in state-wide county computerized information network; authorized fees
- Section 15-6-88 - Minimum annual salary schedule
- Section 15-6-88.1 - [Repealed] [Reserved] Adjustment of schedule for certain counties containing federal land
- Section 15-6-88.2 - Monthly contingent expense allowance schedule for the clerk's office
- Section 15-6-89 - Additional remuneration for certain services
- Section 15-6-90 - Longevity increases; operational expenses; local laws
- Section 15-6-91 - Effect of salary provisions on local legislation
- Section 15-6-92 - [Repealed] [Reserved] Continuation of fee system
- Section 15-6-93 - Office hours
- Section 15-6-94 - Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority
- Section 15-6-95 - Priorities of distribution of fines, bond forfeitures, surcharges, additional fees, and costs in cases of partial payments into the court
- Section 15-6-96 - Clerk as custodian of records; contracts to market records or computer generated data for profit
- Section 15-6-97 - State-wide uniform automated information system; additional powers and duties of Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority
- Section 15-6-97.1 - [Repealed] Civil case information system; funding
- Section 15-6-97.2 - Maintenance of uniform automated electronic information system for carbon sequestration registry
- Section 15-6-97.3 - Revision of automated information system for state tax execution data; regulatory authority
- Section 15-6-98 - Collection and remittal of fees
- Section 15-6-99 - Re-creation of grantor and grantee indexes
- Section 15-6-100 - Clerk's expenditure of funds
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