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GA Code § 9-14-45 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 9 - Civil Practice|Chapter 14 - Habeas Corpus|Article 2 - Procedure for Persons Under Sentence of State Court of Record|§ 9-14-45. Petition - Service

 Service of a petition brought under this article shall be made upon the person having custody of the petitioner. If the petitioner is being detained under the custody of the Department of Corrections, an additional copy of the petition shall be served on the Attorney General. If the petitioner is being detained under the custody of some authority other than the Department of Corrections, an additional copy of the petition shall be served upon the district attorney of the county in which the petition is filed. Service upon the Attorney General or the district attorney may be had by mailing a copy of the petition and a proper certificate of service.   (Code 1933, § 50-127, enacted by Ga. L. 1967, p. 835, § 3; Ga. L. 1985, p. 283, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Habeas Corpus and Postconviction Remedies, § 98.   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Habeas Corpus, § 284 et seq.
GA Code § 9-14-46 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 9 - Civil Practice|Chapter 14 - Habeas Corpus|Article 2 - Procedure for Persons Under Sentence of State Court of Record|§ 9-14-46. Custody and Production of Petitioner

 Custody and control of the petitioner shall be retained by the Department of Corrections or other authority having custody of the petitioner. It shall be the duty of the department or authority to produce the petitioner at such times and places as the court may direct.   (Code 1933, § 50-127, enacted by Ga. L. 1967, p. 835, § 3; Ga. L. 1985, p. 283, § 1.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Transfer of applicant from one institution to another.   - Applicant for habeas corpus relief may be transferred from one institution to another, so long as the Board of Corrections (now Department of Offender Rehabilitation) retains the applicant's custody and the applicant is produced at such times and places as the habeas court may direct, subject to the sole restriction that an applicant for habeas corpus relief becomes ineligible during the pendency of the applicant's application for transfer to a county work camp or other institution or form of restraint not maintained by the Board of Corrections (now Department of Offender Rehabilitation). 1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 71-160.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Habeas Corpus and Postconviction Remedies, §§ 106, 159, 160.
GA Code § 9-14-47.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 9 - Civil Practice|Chapter 14 - Habeas Corpus|Article 2 - Procedure for Persons Under Sentence of State Court of Record|§ 9-14-47.1. Petitions Challenging for the First Time State Court Proceedings Resulting in a Death Sentence

  In petitions filed under this article challenging for the first time state court proceedings resulting in a death sentence, the provisions of this article shall apply except as specifically provided otherwise in this Code section.   Within ten days of the filing of a petition challenging for the first time state court proceedings resulting in a death sentence, the superior court clerk of the county where the petition is filed shall give written notice to The Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia of the filing of the petition which shall serve as a request for judicial assistance under paragraph (3) of subsection (b) of Code Section 15-1-9.1. Within 30 days of receipt of such notice, the president of the council shall, under guidelines promulgated by the executive committee of the council, assign the case to a judge of a circuit other than the circuit in which the conviction and sentence were imposed.   The Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia shall establish, by uniform court rules, appropriate time periods and schedules applicable to petitions filed on or after January 1, 1996, challenging for the first time state court proceedings resulting in a sentence of death. Such rules shall be adopted by the Supreme Court of Georgia on or before December 31, 1995. Such new time periods and schedules shall include, but specifically not be limited to, the following:   Respondent's filing of an answer or motion to dismiss the petition;   Petitioner's filing of any amendments to the petition;   Filing by either party of motions and responses to motions;   Scheduling and conducting of evidentiary hearings; and   Date of final order.     In petitions filed under this article challenging for a second or subsequent time a state court proceeding resulting in a death sentence, the petitioner shall not be entitled to invoke any of the provisions set forth in this Code section to delay the proceedings. To the extent the court deems it necessary to have an evidentiary hearing on any such petition, the court shall expedite the proceedings and the time limits shall not exceed those set for initial petitions.     (Code 1981, §9-14-47.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 381, § 5; Ga. L. 1996, p. 6, § 9.)   Cross references.   - Habeas corpus proceedings in death sentence cases - application, Ga. Unif. S. Ct. R. 44.1.   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 1995, p. 381, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "This Act shall be known and may be cited as the 'Death Penalty Habeas Corpus Reform Act of 1995.'"   Ga. L. 1995, p. 381, § 2, not codified by the General Assembly, provides for legislative intent and purpose for this Act.
GA Code § 9-14-50 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 9 - Civil Practice|Chapter 14 - Habeas Corpus|Article 2 - Procedure for Persons Under Sentence of State Court of Record|§ 9-14-50. Transcription of Proceedings

 All trials held under this article shall be transcribed by a court reporter designated by the superior court hearing the case.   (Code 1933, § 50-127, enacted by Ga. L. 1967, p. 835, § 3.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL    This section would not require a transcript of "mental illness" habeas corpus proceedings.  1967 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 67-320.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Habeas Corpus, §§ 354, 355.
GA Code § 9-14-51 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 9 - Civil Practice|Chapter 14 - Habeas Corpus|Article 2 - Procedure for Persons Under Sentence of State Court of Record|§ 9-14-51. Effect of Failure to Raise Grounds for Relief in Original or Amended Petition

 All grounds for relief claimed by a petitioner for a writ of habeas corpus shall be raised by a petitioner in his original or amended petition. Any grounds not so raised are waived unless the Constitution of the United States or of this state otherwise requires or unless any judge to whom the petition is assigned, on considering a subsequent petition, finds grounds for relief asserted therein which could not reasonably have been raised in the original or amended petition.   (Code 1933, § 50-127, enacted by Ga. L. 1967, p. 835, § 3; Ga. L. 1973, p. 1315, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Denial of relief to prisoner on habeas corpus as bar to second application, 161 A.L.R. 1331.
GA Code § 9-14-53 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 9 - Civil Practice|Chapter 14 - Habeas Corpus|Article 2 - Procedure for Persons Under Sentence of State Court of Record|§ 9-14-53. Reimbursement to Counties for Habeas Corpus Costs

 Each county of this state shall be reimbursed from state funds for court costs both at the trial level and in any appellate court for each writ of habeas corpus sought in the superior court of the county by indigent petitioners when the granting of the writ is denied or when the court costs are cast upon the respondent, but such reimbursement shall not exceed $30,000.00 per annum total for each county. By not later than September 1 of each calendar year, the clerk of the superior court of each county shall send a certified list to The Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia of each writ of habeas corpus sought in the superior court of the county during the 12 month period immediately preceding July 1 of that calendar year by indigent petitioners for which the granting of the writ was denied or for which the court costs were cast upon the respondent; and such list shall include the court costs both at the trial level and in any appellate court for each such writ of habeas corpus. By not later than December 15 of each calendar year, the council shall pay to the county from funds appropriated or otherwise made available for the operation of the superior courts the reimbursement as set forth in the certified list, subject to the maximum reimbursement provided for in this Code section. The list sent to the council as provided in this Code section shall be certified as correct by the governing authority of the county and by the judge of the superior court of the county. The council is authorized to devise and make available to the counties such forms as may be reasonably necessary to carry out this Code section and to establish such procedures as may be reasonably necessary for such purposes. This Code section shall not be construed to amend or repeal the provisions of Code Section 15-6-28 or any other provision of law for funds for any judicial circuit.   (Code 1933, § 50-128, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 2051, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 283, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 19; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 9; Ga. L. 1999, p. 660, § 1; Ga. L. 2011, p. 477, § 1/SB 193; Ga. L. 2017, p. 553, § 1/HB 319.)    The 2017 amendment,  effective July 1, 2017, substituted "$30,000.00" for "$10,000.00" near the end of the first sentence.
GA Code § 10-1-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices|Article 1 - Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales|§ 10-1-1. Short Title

 This article shall be known and may be cited as "The Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales Act."   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 659, § 1.)
GA Code § 10-1-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices|Article 1 - Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales|§ 10-1-5. Mail Order and Telephone Sales

 Retail installment contracts negotiated and entered into by mail or telephone without personal solicitation by salesmen or other representatives of the seller, where a catalogue of the seller or other printed solicitation of business which is distributed and made available generally to the public clearly sets forth the cash price and other terms of sales to be made through such medium, may be made as provided in this Code section. All of the provisions of this article relating to contracts shall apply to such sales, except that the seller shall not be required to deliver a copy of the contract to the buyer as provided in subsection (e) of Code Section 10-1-3; and, if the contract when received by the seller contains any blank spaces, the seller may insert in the appropriate blank space the amounts of money and other terms which are set forth in the seller's catalogue or other printed solicitation which is then in effect. In lieu of presenting the buyer with a copy of the contract as provided in subsection (e) of Code Section 10-1-3, the seller shall furnish to the buyer a written statement of any items inserted in the blank spaces in the contract received from the buyer.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 659, § 5; Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 10/HB 323.)    The 2017 amendment,  effective May 9, 2017, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised language twice in this Code section.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 67 Am. Jur. 2d, Sales, §§ 114, 127et seq.   C.J.S.   - 77A C.J.S., Sales, § 50 et seq.
GA Code § 10-1-6 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices|Article 1 - Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales|§ 10-1-6. Buyer's Right to Cancel Home Solicitation Sale

  The buyer shall have a right to cancel a home solicitation sale agreement until 12:00 Midnight of the third business day after the day on which the buyer signs the agreement.   Notice of cancellation under this Code section shall be given to the seller at the place of business as set forth in the agreement by certified mail or statutory overnight delivery, return receipt requested, which shall be posted not later than 12:00 Midnight on the third business day following execution of the agreement.   In the event of cancellation pursuant to this Code section, the installment seller shall refund to the buyer within ten days after the cancellation all deposits, including any down payment made under the agreement, and redeliver any goods traded in to the seller on account or in contemplation of the home solicitation sale agreement.   In the event of cancellation pursuant to this Code section, the seller shall have the right to charge the buyer 5 percent of the gross sales price of the merchandise purchased by the buyer or $25.00, whichever is less, as liquidated damages. The seller shall also be entitled to reclaim and the buyer shall return, whenever possible, the home solicitation sale agreement. The buyer shall incur no additional liability for cancellation pursuant to this Code section.   If the buyer has received the merchandise sold, the buyer must return that merchandise unused, in the same condition as received by the buyer. The seller shall pick up the merchandise at the place sold within a reasonable time after notice of cancellation; and the seller shall receive from the buyer at that time the actual cost of picking up the merchandise or $5.00, whichever is less.   Notice of cancellation given by the buyer need not take any particular form and, however expressed, is effective if it indicates the intention of the buyer not to be bound by the home solicitation sale.    (Ga. L. 1967, p. 659, § 6; Ga. L. 1971, p. 560, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 432, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 3.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 16, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment to this Code section is applicable with respect to notices delivered on or after July 1, 2000.   Law reviews.   - For note, "Pyramid Marketing Plans and Consumer Protection: State and Federal Regulation," see 21 J. of Pub. L. 445 (1972).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.   - Nature, construction, and effect of "lay away" or "will call" plan or system, 10 A.L.R.3d 456.
GA Code § 10-1-7 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices|Article 1 - Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales|§ 10-1-7. Providing for Payment of Delinquency Charges, Attorneys' Fees, Court Costs, and Check Dishonor Fees

  A retail installment contract or a revolving account may provide for payment by the buyer of a delinquency charge on any installment which is not paid within ten days from the date the payment is due. The charge may not exceed $25.00. A delinquent charge shall not be collected more than once for the same default. A retail installment contract or a revolving account may provide for the payment of reasonable attorneys' fees, if referred for collection to an attorney not a salaried employee of the retail seller, and for the payment of court costs.   A retail installment contract or a revolving account may provide that if the buyer submits to the retail seller as payment for an unpaid balance, or portion thereof, in that account or pursuant to that contract, a check, draft, or order for the payment of money on any bank or other depository, which check, draft, or order is not honored by the drawee, then a delinquency charge as specified in subsection (a) of this Code section may be charged; and a bad instrument fee not to exceed the amount specified in subsection (j) of Code Section 16-9-20 and Code Section 13-6-15 may be charged to the buyer and added to the unpaid balance on the buyer's account if ten days have elapsed since the retail seller has mailed to the buyer at his or her last known address written notice of the failure to honor the check, draft, or order without the check, draft, or order having been made good. A fee authorized by this Code section shall not be deemed to be time price differential, interest, or any other type of finance charge and shall not be included in determining whether any limitations on time price differential, interest, or other finance charges have been exceeded.    (Ga. L. 1967, p. 659, § 7; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1430, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 207, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 913, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1299, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 346, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1352, § 2; Ga. L. 2001, p. 782, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 809, § 1; Ga. L. 2007, p. 597, § 1/HB 240.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.   - Contractual provision for attorney's fees as including allowance for services rendered upon appellate review, 52 A.L.R.2d 863.   Award of attorneys' fees under § 813(a)(3) of Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 USCS § 1692k(a)(3)), 132 A.L.R. Fed. 477.
GA Code § 10-1-8 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices|Article 1 - Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales|§ 10-1-8. Security Interest Not Taken on Certain Items; Application of Payments to Revolving Accounts; Written Agreements

  Any security interest taken pursuant to a retail installment contract or revolving account shall not be taken with respect to clothing, softwares, and other nondurable items. Each payment with respect to a revolving account shall be applied to goods and services as follows: first to unpaid time price differential or finance charge; then, as to goods purchased on different dates, the first purchased shall be deemed first paid for; as to goods purchased on the same date, the lowest priced shall be deemed first paid for.   Nothing contained in subsection (a) of this Code section shall prevent the parties from agreeing in writing for the payments to be otherwise applied; provided, however, that this Code section shall be construed consistently with Part 2 of Article 15 of this chapter, the "Fair Business Practices Act of 1975."Nothing in this Code section shall be deemed to authorize any act or practice which would otherwise be deemed unfair and deceptive under Part 2 of Article 15 of this chapter, the "Fair Business Practices Act of 1975."    (Ga. L. 1976, p. 721, § 2; Ga. L. 1994, p. 696, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 67 Am. Jur. 2d, Sales, §§ 253 et seq., 589.   ALR.   - Validity and construction of revolving charge account contract or plan, 41 A.L.R.3d 682.
GA Code § 10-1-9 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices|Article 1 - Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales|§ 10-1-9. Transfer of Retail Installment Contracts or Revolving Accounts

  Any retail seller may assign, pledge, hypothecate, or otherwise transfer a retail installment contract or revolving account to any person, firm, or corporation on such terms and conditions and for such price as may be mutually agreed upon. Unless the buyer has notice of the assignment, payment thereunder made by the buyer to the last known owner of the contract or account shall be binding on all subsequent owners thereof.   In no event will any such assignment bar any right of action against the seller arising as a result of this article, nor will any such assignment bar any defense against the sales finance company or other assignee arising as a result of subsection (b) of Code Section 10-1-15.    (Ga. L. 1967, p. 659, § 8.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 67 Am. Jur. 2d, Sales, §§ 325 et seq, 589 et seq.   ALR.   - Constitutionality, construction, and application of statute respecting sale, assignment, or transfer of retail installment contracts, 10 A.L.R.2d 447.
GA Code § 10-1-11 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices|Article 1 - Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales|§ 10-1-11. Second Mortgage Statute Not Affected; Exemption From Loan and Interest Statutes

 Nothing contained in this article shall be construed so as to amend, modify, supersede, or repeal Article 2 of Chapter 4 of Title 7, relating to charges and interest on loans secured by secondary security deeds, as now or hereafter amended, nor shall any of the provisions of the loan or interest statutes of this state affect or apply to any retail installment and home solicitation sale.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 659, § 11; Ga. L. 1968, p. 1088, § 3.)
GA Code § 10-1-12 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices|Article 1 - Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales|§ 10-1-12. Prior Contracts or Accounts Not Affected

 This article shall not make unlawful contracts or accounts in effect prior to October 1, 1967.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 659, § 12.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 67 Am. Jur. 2d, Sales, § 76 et seq.   ALR.   - Illegality as basis for denying remedy of specific performance for breach of contract, 58 A.L.R.5th 387.
GA Code § 10-1-13 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices|Article 1 - Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales|§ 10-1-13. Waiver of This Article Void

 Any waiver of this article shall be unenforceable and void.   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 659, § 13.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 67 Am. Jur. 2d, Sales, § 68.   C.J.S.   - 77A C.J.S., Sales, § 122 et seq.   ALR.   - Constitutionality, construction, and application of statute respecting sale, assignment, or transfer of retail installment contracts, 10 A.L.R.2d 447.
GA Code § 10-1-14 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices|Article 1 - Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales|§ 10-1-14. Limitation of Actions

  No action shall be brought under this article more than four years after the person bringing the action knew or should have known of the occurrence of the alleged violation.   The period of time specified by this Code section shall only apply to violations of this article which occur after July 1, 1979.    (Ga. L. 1979, p. 1011, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 77A C.J.S., Sales, §§ 495, 589.
GA Code § 10-1-16 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices|Article 1 - Retail Installment and Home Solicitation Sales|§ 10-1-16. Inapplicability of This Article to Educational Entities and Student Loan Transactions

 This article shall not apply to the University System of Georgia or its educational units, to private colleges and universities in this state and associations thereof, or to student loan transactions of such educational entities, which educational entities and student loan transactions thereof are expressly exempted from the operation of its provisions.    (Code 1981, §10-1-16, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 251, § 1.)   Law reviews.   - For article, "The Income-Based Repayment Plans and For-Profit Education: How Does This Combination Affect the Question to Include Student Loans in Bankruptcy?," see 32 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 603 (2016).
GA Code § 10-1-30 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 10 - Commerce and Trade|Chapter 1 - Selling and Other Trade Practices|Article 2 - Motor Vehicle Sales Financing|§ 10-1-30. Short Title

 This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act."   (Ga. L. 1967, p. 674, § 1.)   Law reviews.   - For annual survey of commercial law in 1984-1985, see 37 Mercer L. Rev. 139 (1985). For annual survey of commercial law in 1990-1991, see 43 Mercer L. Rev. 119 (1991). For survey article on insurance law for the period from June 1, 2002 through May 31, 2003, see 55 Mercer L. Rev. 277 (2003).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS    Cited in Chrysler Credit Corp. v. Cooper, 11 Bankr. 391 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. 1981); Ford Motor Credit Co. v. London, 175 Ga. App. 33, 332 S.E.2d 345 (1985); SunTrust Bank v. Venable, 299 Ga. 655, 791 S.E.2d 5 (2016).