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Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 11. JUVENILE CODE · Article 6. DELINQUENCY · Part 6. DELINQUENCY PETITION

15-11-522. Contents of petition.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. A petition alleging delinquency shall be verified and may be on information and belief. It shall set forth plainly and with particularity:

  2. (1)

    The facts which bring a child within the jurisdiction of the court, with a statement that it is in the best interests of such child and the public that the proceeding be brought and that such child is in need of supervision, treatment, or rehabilitation, as the case may be;#

  3. (2)

    The name, age, and residence address of such child on whose behalf such petition is brought;#

  4. (3)

    The name and residence address of such child’s parent, guardian, or legal custodian; or, if such child’s parent, guardian, or legal custodian does not reside or cannot be found within this state or if such place of residence address is unknown, the name of any of such child’s known adult relative residing within the county or, if there is none, such child’s known adult relative residing nearest to the location of the court;#

  5. (4)

    If a child is in custody, the place of his or her detention and the time such child was taken into custody;#

  6. (5)

    If a child is being charged with a class A designated felony act or class B designated felony act; and#

  7. (6)

    Whether any of the information required by this Code section is unknown.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 15-11-522, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 294, § 1-1/HB 242.

Law reviews

For article discussing due process in juvenile court procedures in California and Georgia, in light of In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 87 S. Ct. 1428, 18 L. Ed. 2d 527 (1967), see 8 Ga. St. B. J. 9 (1971). For article, ‘‘Child Custody—Jurisdiction and Procedure,’’ see 35 Emory L. J. 291 (1986). For comment on grandparents’ visitation rights in Georgia, see 29 Emory L. J. 1083 (1980).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t15-ch1-11a-(v13)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V13, 2020 edition, page 1222; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 1f1f034443c3.