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05 LC 21 8323
Senate Bill 343
By: Senators Seay of the 34th and Starr of the 44th

AS PASSED SENATE

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend an Act placing the judge of the Probate Court of Clayton County on an annual salary, approved February 7, 1950 (Ga. L. 1950, p. 2068), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 13, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 4331), so as to change the compensation of the judge of the probate court; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.
An Act placing the judge of the Probate Court of Clayton County on an annual salary, approved February 7, 1950 (Ga. L. 1950, p. 2068), as amended, particularly by an Act approved April 13, 2001 (Ga. L. 2001, p. 4331), is amended by striking Section 1 thereof and inserting in its place a new section to read as follows:

"SECTION 1.
The salary provided in this section for the judge of the probate court shall be his or her full and complete compensation; and all fees or other emoluments now allowed, or hereafter allowed by any authority of law, for which said judge is entitled heretofore and which he or she earns or receives by reason of being the probate judge whether under color of the office of probate judge or not shall henceforth be county funds and accountable as such in the same manner as other county funds received by said judge of the probate court. The judge of the probate court shall receive an annual salary equal to 90 percent of the amount of state salary provided by general law for superior court judges, as such amount may be increased by cost-of-living adjustments, to be paid in equal monthly installments from the funds of Clayton County. In addition, said judge shall receive a salary supplement of $4,000.00 per annum payable in equal monthly installments from county funds. In addition, said judge shall also receive those fees authorized to be retained under Code Section 15-9-68 of the O.C.G.A., regarding vital records fees, as limited by any resolution of the governing authority of Clayton County pursuant to Code Section 15-9-68 of the O.C.G.A."

SECTION 2.
This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2005.

SECTION 3.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.