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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 4. ARREST OF PERSONS · Article 2. ARREST BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS GENERALLY

17-4-29. Collecting or receiving costs or other charges of prosecutor or defendant by arresting officer before warrant returned.

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

  1. (a)

    Any arresting officer who collects or receives any costs or other charges of a prosecutor or defendant in a case made on a state’s warrant, or of anyone acting in the interest of either of them, before the warrant is returned to the court to which it is made returnable, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.#

  2. (b)

    Nothing in this Code section or in Code Section 17-4-28 shall be construed as prohibiting arresting officers from receiving from prosecutors sums of money sufficient to defray their expenses in going beyond the limits of the jurisdiction of such arresting officer to search for or to make the arrest of the accused person.#

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

Ga. L. 1897, p. 98, § 2; Penal Code 1910, § 924; Code 1933, § 27-9902.

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Text read from t17-(v15)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V15, 2020 edition, page 139; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 0b0d45f9c609.