§ 2-2-61. Abolishment of fee system for compensation of sheriff, superior court clerk and probate judge; handling of fees.

The compensation of the sheriff, the clerk of the superior court and the ordinary [judge of the probate court] of the county, which is now based on a fee system, is hereby abolished, and the officials herein named shall hereafter be paid salaries as herein provided. All fees, costs, percentages, forfeitures, penalties, allowances, and all other perquisites of whatever kind, as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law to be received or collected as compensation for service by any official named herein, shall be received and diligently collected by all of said officials for the sole use of the county, and shall be held as public moneys belonging to the county and accounted for and paid over to the county treasurer on the fifth day of each month (or on the sixth day of the month, if the fifth day falls on Sunday), at which time a detailed itemized statement shall be made by the officer under oath showing such collections and the sources from which collected, and the county treasurer shall keep a separate account showing such collections and the sources from which they are paid. However, all such fees, costs, percentages, forfeitures, penalties, allowances, or other perquisites accrued, due or owing before January 1, 1961, may be collected by said officers and need not be accounted for or paid over to the county treasurer.

(Ga. Laws 1958, P. 3127, Act No. 345, § 1; Ga. Laws 1961, P. 2007, Act No. 4, § 1)

Editor's note

The position of ordinary is now known as the judge of the probate court. See Ga. Const. 1976, Art. VI, Sec. IV, Par. III. Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 15-16-19 removed all sheriffs from the "fee system."