§ 9-14-41.Article as exclusive procedure

This section does one job: it tells a court which set of rules applies. Chapter 14 of Title 9 covers habeas corpus generally, but Article 2 — the article this section opens — carves out its own procedure for a narrower group: people confined under a sentence a Georgia state court of record imposed. For that group, this section says, Article 2’s rules are not one option among several; they are the only route.

The word “notwithstanding” at the start of the section does real work. It overrides anything elsewhere in Chapter 14 — including Article 1’s more general habeas corpus procedure — that might otherwise seem to apply to the same person. A prisoner serving a sentence from a Georgia superior court, state court, or other court of record cannot choose Article 1’s procedure instead, even if some part of it might look more favorable to the petitioner.

The line drawn here matters because Article 1 still governs plenty of other habeas corpus cases: custody disputes, people held on immigration or extradition grounds, and other forms of restraint that don’t trace back to a state-court sentence. Article 2’s exclusivity applies only within its own lane — sentences imposed by Georgia courts of record — leaving the rest of Chapter 14 to do the work it always did.