Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HB 619 - Garden City, City of; recorder's court; authority

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1. Dixon  150th           2. Mueller  152nd          3. Bordeaux  151st
4. Pelote  149th          5. Thomas  148th           6. Day  153rd


House Comm: LLeg       /                Senate Comm: SLGO       /               
House Vote: Yeas 91    Nays 3           Senate Vote: Yeas 47  Nays 0            
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               House          Action         Senate                             
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              2/6/95   Read 1st Time         2/9/95                             
              2/7/95   Read 2nd Time                                            
              2/8/95   Favorably Reported    2/15/95                            
              2/8/95   Read 3rd Time                                            
              2/8/95   Passed/Adopted        2/15/95                            
              3/20/95  Sent to Governor                                         
              3/27/95  Signed by Governor                                       
              66       Act/Veto Number                                          
              3/27/95  Effective Date                                           
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HB 619                                            LC 22 1528






                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of
  1- 2  Garden City, approved April 17, 1973 (Ga. L. 1973, p. 3581),
  1- 3  as amended, so as to increase the limit of the authority of
  1- 4  the recorder's court to impose terms of imprisonment and
  1- 5  community service from 90 days to 12 months; to increase
  1- 6  from 90 days to 12 months the maximum term of imprisonment
  1- 7  or community service for violations of the provisions of the
  1- 8  charter of Garden City, Georgia, as amended, for which no
  1- 9  term of imprisonment or community service is specifically
  1-10  provided in said charter; to provide for related matters; to
  1-11  repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

  1-12       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1-13  An Act creating a new charter for the City of Garden City,
  1-14  approved April 17, 1973 (Ga. L. 1973, p. 3581), as amended,
  1-15  is amended by striking subsection (a) of Article IV, Section
  1-16  4.13 and inserting in lieu thereof a new subsection (a) to
  1-17  read as follows:

  1-18    "(a) Recorder's court shall try and punish for crimes
  1-19    against Garden City and for violations of its ordinances.
  1-20    The recorder's court shall have authority to punish those
  1-21    in its presence for contempt, provided that such a
  1-22    punishment shall not exceed $500.00 or ten days in the
  1-23    jail.  The recorder's court may fix punishment for
  1-24    offenses within its jurisdiction not exceeding a fine of
  1-25    $1,000.00 or imprisonment for 12 months, or both, and as
  1-26    an alternative to a fine or imprisonment, to sentence any
  1-27    offender upon conviction to community service for a period
  1-28    not exceeding 12 months.  Persons sentenced to
  1-29    imprisonment may be taken to a confinement or correctional
  1-30    facility of either Garden City or Chatham County."






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                                                  LC 22 1528

                         SECTION 2.

  2- 1  Said Act is further amended by striking Article VIII,
  2- 2  Section 8.13 and inserting in lieu thereof a new Section
  2- 3  8.13 to read as follows:

  2- 4                         "SECTION 8.13.
                         Penalties.

  2- 5    The violation of any provision of this charter for which
  2- 6    no penalty is specifically provided for herein is declared
  2- 7    to be a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of
  2- 8    not more than $1,000.00 or imprisonment not to exceed 12
  2- 9    months, or both such fine and imprisonment, or, as an
  2-10    alternative to a fine or imprisonment, by a sentence of
  2-11    community service for a period not exceeding 12 months."

                         SECTION 3.

  2-12  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2-13  repealed.






























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