Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 5. SEARCHES AND SEIZURES · Article 4. INVESTIGATING SEXUAL ASSAULT
17-5-70. Definitions.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
As used in this article, the term:
- (1)
‘‘Forensic medical examination’’ means an examination by a health care provider of a person who is a victim of a sexual assault. Such examination shall include a physical examination, documentation of biological and physical findings, and collection of physical evidence from the victim.#
- (2)
‘‘Investigating law enforcement agency’’ means the law enforcement agency responsible for the investigation of the alleged sexual assault.#
- (3)
‘‘Sexual assault’’ means rape, sodomy, aggravated sodomy, statutory rape, child molestation, aggravated child molestation, sexual assault against a person in custody, sexual assault against a person detained in a hospital or other institution, sexual assault by a practitioner of psychotherapy against a patient, incest, bestiality, sexual battery, and aggravated sexual battery as those terms and offenses are set forth and defined in Chapter 6 of Title 16.#
History
Code 1981, § 17-5-70, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 486, § 3/HB 1297.
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