Section 9-13-36. Transfer of execution upon payment; status of transferee; recording necessary to preserve lien; exception for tax executions

   (a) Except as otherwise provided for in subsection (b) of this Code section, whenever any person other than the person against whom the same has issued pays any execution, issued without the judgment of a court, under any law, the officer whose duty it is to enforce the execution, upon the request of the party paying the same, shall transfer the execution to the party. The transferee shall have the same rights as to enforcing the execution and priority of payment as might have been exercised or claimed before the transfer, provided that the transferee shall have the execution entered on the general execution docket of the superior court of the county in which the same was issued and, if the person against whom the same was issued resides in a different county, also in the county of such person's residence within 30 days from the transfer; in default thereof the execution shall lose its lien upon any property which has been transferred bona fide and for a valuable consideration before the recordation and without notice of the existence of the execution.

(b) This Code section shall not be applicable to tax executions. Tax executions shall be governed exclusively by Chapters 3 and 4 of Title 48.

Ga. L. 1872, p. 75, § 1; Code 1873, § 891a; Ga. L. 1875, p. 119, § 1; Code 1882, § 891a; Ga. L. 1894, p. 37, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 888; Civil Code 1910, § 1145; Code 1933, § 39-403; Ga. L. 2006, p. 770, § 1/SB 585.