Skip to content
Georgia Commons
Menu

Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 16. SHERIFFS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-16-28. Creation of merit board; appeals from disciplinary actions.

Active

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

  1. In any county there may be created by local Act of the General Assembly a merit board to hear and decide appeals from disciplinary actions against deputies and other employees of the sheriff of the county; provided, however, that no such merit board or appeals procedure shall become effective until approved and adopted by the sheriff.

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, § 15-16-28, enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 536, § 1.

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-ch12-24-(v13a)-2015-pdf.pdf, Volume V13A, 2015 edition, page 291; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 3ead04cf60ab.