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Title 35. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND AGENCIES · Chapter 3. GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION · Article 6. DIVISION OF FORENSIC SCIENCES

35-3-150. Definitions.

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

  1. As used in this article, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Crime lab” or “state crime lab” means the Division of Forensic Sciences of the bureau.#

  3. (2)

    “Division” means the Division of Forensic Sciences of the bureau.#

  4. (3)

    “Division director” means the director of the Division of Forensic Sciences of the bureau.#

  5. (4)

    “Independent test” means a forensic analysis of evidence in the custody and possession of the state or any political subdivision or authority thereof conducted at the request of or on behalf of any person other than a prosecuting attorney, law enforcement officer, or other authorized agent of the state or which are ordered conducted by a court at the request of an accused.#

  6. (5)

    “Regional medical examiner” shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 45-16-21.#

  7. (6)

    “Rule” or “rules” means a rule or regulation adopted pursuant to Chapter 13 of Title 50, the “Georgia Administrative Procedure Act.”#

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, § 35-3-150, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1421, § 3; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 35(16)/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 former paragraphs (1) and (3), which read: “(1) ‘Board’ means the Board of Public Safety.” and “(3) ‘Director’ means the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.”; redesignated former paragraphs (2) and (4) through (8) as present paragraphs (1) and (2) through (6), respectively; substituted “bureau” for “Georgia Bureau of Investigation” at the end of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3); and substituted “as set forth in” for “as defined in paragraph (13) of” in paragraph (5).

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