shall provide, in conjunction and cooperation with the other counties in the judicial circuit and in a pro rata share according to the population of each county, appropriate offices, utilities, telephone expenses, materials, and supplies as may be necessary to equip, maintain, and furnish the office or offices of the circuit public defender in an orderly and efficient manner. The provisions of an office, utilities, telephone expenses, materials, and supplies shall be subject to the budget procedures required by Article 1 of Chapter 81 of Title 36.
Because the Code section does not state that the counties were required to pay their share for transcripts, the trial court reasoned that the Council was obligated to fund those costs.
On appeal, the Council contends the trial court erred in ordering itAttorney General of Georgia, and by the Atlanta Bar Association, the Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic, the Gate City Bar Association, the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association, the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Georgia Innocence Project, the Georgia Justice Project, the Southern Center for Human Rights, and the Stonewall Bar Association.
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Any contingent expenses incurred in holding any session of the superior court, including lights, fuel, stationery, rent, publication of grand jury presentments when ordered published, and similar items, such as taking down testimony in felony cases, etc., shall be paid out of the county treasury of such county upon the certificate of the judge of the superior court and without further order.
(Emphasis supplied.)
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