Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 18. PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-18-31. Referrals to defensive driving programs.

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When a prosecuting attorney determines that prosecution of a traffic offense, or municipal ordinance involving a traffic offense, is or is not warranted, and regardless of whether a court order is entered for such offense or a referral is made to a pretrial intervention, pretrial release, pretrial diversion program, or other similar pretrial program, a prosecuting attorney may condition any other action regarding such offense upon the satisfactory completion of a defensive driving course or defensive driving program approved by the Department of Driver Services but shall not be authorized to mandate the completion of any other driving program.

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, § 15-18-31, enacted by Ga. L. 2014, p. 710, § 1-2/SB 298.

This Code section became effective July 1, 2014.

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