Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 5. SEARCHES AND SEIZURES · Article 2. SEARCHES WITH WARRANTS

17-5-28. Detention and search of persons on premises.

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In the execution of the search warrant the officer executing the same may reasonably detain or search any person in the place at the time:
(1)
To protect himself from attack; or#
(2)
To prevent the disposal or concealment of any instruments, articles, or things particularly described in the search warrant.#

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, § 9.

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For annual survey of criminal law and procedure, see 41 Mercer L. Rev. 115 (1989).

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