§ 3.1. Municipal court judge; appointment; jurisdiction; powers; compensation.

The Mayor and Council of the City of Chamblee shall have authority to employ a municipal court judge to serve as a trial magistrate in the municipal's court of said City of Chamblee. When such municipal court judge is so employed, his jurisdiction shall be as prescribed by the charter of said municipality and the general laws of the State of Georgia. The mayor and council may from time to time prescribe by resolution how the work and duties of said municipal court judge and others authorized to preside in said municipal court may divide the work and duties among themselves. Such municipal court judge shall at all times hold his office subject to direction and control of the mayor and council, and subject to his term of employment being terminated at the will of the mayor and council. He shall receive such reasonable compensation to be paid monthly from the general funds of the city, as the mayor and council may determine and fix.

(1953 Ga. Laws, page 2447)

Editor's note

Sections 3.1 through 3.3 have been numbered for inclusion at the codifier's discretion. They were enacted as unnumbered Charter amendments. Section 3.1 was amended by home rule ordinance to delete references to the mayor and mayor pro tem as judges of the court.