Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, this chapter shall not apply to a city court, which is authorized to try state traffic offenses, of any city of this state having a population of 300,000 or more according to the United States decennial census of 1980 or any future such census.
(Ga. L. 1982, p. 586, § 1; Code 1981, §36-15-12, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 586, § 2.)