§ 9-13-161.1.Holding of sales of personal property at place other than courthouse; advertisement of general order as to sale location

This section runs alongside Code Section 9-13-161(c) but is narrower and more demanding in two ways: it applies only in Georgia’s most populous counties — those with 600,000 or more residents under the 1990 census or any later census — and it reaches only sales of personal property by the sheriff, not real estate.

The mechanics differ from subsection (c)’s general rule as well. Here, it is the chief judge of the superior court, not the presiding judge, who may relocate the sale, and the general order has to run not just in the county’s official newspaper but in two additional newspapers with general circulation in the county, all entered on the court’s minutes. Once issued, the chief judge may revise the location again later through another general order following the same publication requirements. As with the general rule, the property still must be sold at whatever location the advertisement stated.

The closing subsections mark this as a supplemental tool rather than a wholesale replacement for existing law, aimed at handling sheriff’s sales efficiently and in an orderly way in the state’s largest counties, and they preserve the timing, manner, and place of any sale that is not made by the sheriff but is otherwise required to follow sheriff’s-sale procedure — a chief judge’s order under this section does not reach those.