Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 18. PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS · Article 2. PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS’ COUNCIL

15-18-47. Qualifications, authority, and duties.

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

Attorneys and investigators employed by the council shall meet the same qualifications as those provided by Code Section 15-18-21 for attorneys and investigators employed by district attorneys. Such attorneys and investigators shall take and subscribe to an oath similar to the oath required by district attorneys. When assisting a district attorney, solicitor-general, or the Attorney General, such attorneys and investigators shall have the same authority and power as an attorney or investigator employed by such district attorney, solicitor-general, or the Attorney General. Investigators employed by the council and authorized by the council to carry weapons or to exercise any of the powers of a peace officer of this state shall meet the requirements of Chapter 8 of Title 35.

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, § 15-18-47, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 577, § 15/SB 396.

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