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02 LC 30 0199
House Bill
1149
By: Representative Poag of the 6th
A BILL TO BE
ENTITLED
AN ACT
To amend an Act relating to the Magistrate Court of Murray
County, approved March 12, 1984 (Ga. L. 1984, p. 4061), as amended, particularly
by an Act approved April 9, 1999 (Ga. L. 1999, p. 3972), so as to provide for
the election of the magistrates of the Magistrate Court of Murray County in a
nonpartisan primary and election; to increase the number of combined days of
service per month for the part-time magistrates; to provide for related matters;
to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
An Act relating to the Magistrate Court of Murray County,
approved March 12, 1984 (Ga. L. 1984, p. 4061), as amended, particularly by an
Act approved April 9, 1999 (Ga. L. 1999, p. 3972), is amended by striking
Section 2 and inserting in its place the following:
"SECTION
2.
(a) The chief magistrate may reside anywhere within Murray
County and shall be elected at the 1984 general election and quadrennially
thereafter. The other magistrates shall likewise be elected at the 1984 general
election and quadrennially thereafter but shall be required to meet the
residency qualifications of this section. One magistrate shall be elected as the
magistrate from Post No. 1 and the other shall be elected as the magistrate from
Post No. 2. Each of such magistrates shall be elected at large by all the
qualified voters of Murray County; but the magistrate from Post No. 1 must be a
resident of District No. 1, described as follows, and the magistrate from Post
No. 2 must be a resident of District No. 2, described as
follows:
District No.
1
Murray
Tract
9901
Tract 9902
Block
301
Tract 9903
Blocks
101 through 123, 136 through 141, 145, and 148 through
150
District No.
2
Murray
Tract
9902
Block Group
2
Blocks 302 through
316
Block Group
4
Tract 9903
Blocks
124 through 128, 130 through 135, 151 through 179, and
183
Block Group
2
Blocks 301 through 309 and 311 through
323
(b) For the purposes of this
section:
(1) The terms 'Tract' or 'Census Tract,'
'Block Group,' and 'Block' shall mean and shall describe the same geographical
boundaries as provided in the report of the Bureau of the Census for the United
States decennial census of 1980 for the State of
Georgia.
(2) Any part of Murray County which is not
included in any district described in this section shall be included within that
district contiguous to such part which contains the least population according
to the United States decennial census of 1980 for the State of
Georgia.
(c) After January 1, 2003, the chief
magistrate and the other magistrates shall be elected in a nonpartisan election
with a prior nonpartisan primary immediately preceding the expiration of such
terms, as provided in Code Section 21-2-139 of the
O.C.G.A."
SECTION 2.
Said Act is further amended by striking in its entirety
subsection (a) of Section 3 and inserting in its place the
following:
"(a)
The chief magistrate shall receive an annual salary of $40,500.00. The
cost-of-living and longevity increases as provided for in Code Section 15-10-23
of the O.C.G.A. shall be applied to the annual salary of the chief magistrate.
Each other magistrate shall receive for each day of service a salary equal to
one three hundred and sixty-fifth of the salary of the chief magistrate, but the
other magistrates shall not receive such compensation for more than 30 combined
days of service for any month for both magistrates unless the chief magistrate
is disabled, in which event the compensation of the other magistrates during
that disability shall be the same as provided for in this
subsection."
SECTION 3.
This Act shall become effective January 1,
2003.
SECTION 4.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
repealed.