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O.C.G.A. § 15-6-16

No authority when absent from state

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Current — August 17, 2021
As of December 1, 2018
No judge of the superior courts shall have authority to perform any judicial act required of him by law when he is beyond the jurisdiction of this state.
Each judge of the superior court shall have authority to perform any judicial act which he or she is lawfully entitled to perform, regardless of where such judge is located when such judicial act is performed.

Current official text: Official Code of Georgia Annotated (LexisNexis). Digitized from the Internet Archive scan of the OCGA. Reproduced from public-domain Georgia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.