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Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 24. SEXUAL ASSAULT PROTOCOL

15-24-1. Definitions.

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  1. As used in this chapter, the term:

  2. (1)

    ‘‘Protocol committee’’ or ‘‘committee’’ means a multidisciplinary, multiagency sexual assault committee established for a county pursuant to Code Section 15-24-2. The protocol committee is charged with developing local protocols to investigate and prosecute alleged cases of sexual assault.#

  3. (2)

    ‘‘Sexual assault’’ means rape, sodomy, aggravated sodomy, incest, sexual battery, and aggravated sexual battery as those terms are defined in Chapter 6 of Title 16.#

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History

Code 1981, § 15-24-1, enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 466, § 3.

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