Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 5. SEARCHES AND SEIZURES · Article 1. SEARCHES WITHOUT WARRANTS

17-5-2. Inventory of items seized without search warrant to be given to person arrested and judicial officer before whom person arrested taken; return of items.

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An inventory of all instruments, articles, or things seized in a search without a search warrant shall be given to the person arrested and a copy thereof delivered to the judicial officer before whom the person arrested is taken. If the person arrested is released without a charge being preferred against him, all instruments, articles, or things seized, other than contraband or stolen property, shall be returned to him upon release.

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. 1966, p. 567, § 2.

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For comment on warrantless search of defendant’s home, see 41 Emory L.J. 321 (1992).

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