Georgia Code
Part 9 - Judges and Other Court Employees; Certain County Employees
§ 47-2-290. Judges, Solicitors, and Other Employees of State Courts Subject to Merit System; Membership in Retirement System; Contributions; Exemptions

History. Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 305, §§ 1-5; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 47; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 19; Ga. L. 1994, p. 92, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 753, § 7/SB 109; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 64/SB 436; Ga. L. 2020, p. 474, § 4/SB 176.
The 2009 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, in subsection (a), in the fifth sentence, substituted “Council of State Court Judges of Georgia” for “commissioner of administrative services” twice, substituted “or otherwise available” for “for the operation of the superior courts of this state” in the middle, and inserted “for judges and employees of the state courts” near the end, and added the last sentence.
The 2010 amendment, effective July 1, 2010, substituted “The Council” for “the Council” in the fifth sentence of subsection (a).
The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, repealed and reserved former subsection (c), which read: “Subsection (b) of Code Section 47-2-110 shall not apply to the judges and solicitors of any state court, who may retire at their discretion at any time after becoming eligible to retire.”
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “The intent of this Act is to repeal obsolete and inoperative provisions and to make certain stylistic corrections in Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated. Nothing in this Act shall deny, abridge, increase, renew, revive, or on any way affect any right, benefit, option, credit, or election to which any person was entitled pursuant to such title on June 30, 2010, and the board of trustees of each public retirement system is authorized and directed to provide by regulation for the continuation of any such right, benefit, option, credit, or election not otherwise covered in this Act; provided, however, that any such right, benefit, option, credit, or election shall be subject to the statutory provisions in effect on June 30, 2010.”
Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 67, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “In the event of an irreconcilable conflict between a provision of Sections 62 through 64 of this Act and a provision of another Act enacted at the 2010 regular session of the General Assembly, the provision of such other Act shall control over this Act to the extent of the conflict.

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