Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 35. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND AGENCIES · Chapter 2. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY · Article 6. CAPITOL POLICE DIVISION

35-2-120. Definitions.

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

As used in this article, the term:
(1)
“Capitol Square” means that area designated as such by Code Section 50-2-28.#
(2)
“Division” means the Capitol Police Division of the department created by this article.#

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, § 35-2-120, enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 137, § 1/HB 1074; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 35(10)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted paragraphs (2) and (3), which read: “(2) ‘Commissioner’ means the commissioner of public safety. “(3) ‘Department’ means the Department of Public Safety.”; and redesignated former paragraph (4) as present paragraph (2).

Cross references

Appointment of nonuniformed investigators to protect state property, § 35-1-6.

Law reviews

For annual survey of law on administrative law, see 62 Mercer L. Rev. 1 (2010).

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