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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 5. CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON · Article 8. PROTECTION OF ELDER PERSONS

16-5-105. Applicability.

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

  1. (a)

    The use of a power of attorney as provided for in Chapter 6B of Title 10 shall not, in and of itself, absolve a person from prosecution under this article.#

  2. (b)

    This article shall be cumulative and supplemental to any other law of this state.#

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, § 16-5-104, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 524, § 1-1/HB 78; Code 1981, § 16-5-105, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2015, p. 598, § 1-3/HB 72; Ga. L. 2017, p. 435, § 3-3/HB 221. The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, added subsection (a); and designated the existing provisions of this Code section as subsection (b).

Law reviews

For article on the 2015 enactment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 63 (2015).

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Text read from t16-ch1-6-(v14)-2019-pdf.pdf, Volume V14, 2019 edition, pages 1042 to 1043; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7e331f0ca7d3.