Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 11. JUVENILE CODE · Article 6. DELINQUENCY · Part 9. TRANSFERS

15-11-565. Places authorized for detention of child before and after transfer order.

Active

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

(a)
Prior to the entry of a judgment ordering a child’s transfer or during the pendency of an appeal of a judgment ordering a child’s transfer, such child shall be detained only in those places authorized for the preadjudication detention of a child as set forth in Code Section 15-11-504.#
(b)
After the entry of a judgment ordering transfer, a child shall be detained only in those places authorized for the detention of a child until such child, as set forth in Code Section 15-11-34, reaches 17 years of age.#

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.

Code 1981, § 15-11-565, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 294, § 1-1/HB 242.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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 1266; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1f1f034443c3.