---
title: O.C.G.A. § 35-2-44. Enlistment, examination, preliminary training, subsequent instruction, and rules and regulations for discipline and conduct of recruits and troopers.
collection: code
id: 35-2-44
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 35-2-44 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/35-2-44
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/35-2-44.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/35-2-44/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t35-t36-ch1-59-(v27)-2025-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=66569db4_0#page=72
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/35-2.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/35-2-43.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/35-2-45.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia
heading_path: LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND AGENCIES / DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY / UNIFORM DIVISION
---

# O.C.G.A. § 35-2-44. Enlistment, examination, preliminary training, subsequent instruction, and rules and regulations for discipline and conduct of recruits and troopers.

It shall be the duty of the commissioner, subject to the laws of this state, to arrange for the enlistment and examination of applicants for service as troopers or officers of the Uniform Division of the department, to provide the necessary preliminary training and subsequent instruction of troopers and recruits as peace officers of this state, and to make all necessary rules and regulations for the discipline, conduct, and control of all officers, troopers, and other employees of the department.

## History

Ga. L. 1937, p. 322, art. 2, § 8; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 35(42)(F)/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, substituted “department” for “Department of Public Safety” in the middle of this Code section.