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title: O.C.G.A. § 35-3-172. Development and implementation.
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# O.C.G.A. § 35-3-172. Development and implementation.

(a) With the cooperation of the office of the Governor, the Georgia Lottery Corporation, and other appropriate law enforcement agencies in this state, the bureau shall develop and implement a state-wide alert system to be activated on behalf of missing disabled adults and medically endangered persons.

(b) Activation of a state-wide missing person alert system shall not prevent or prohibit any other state or local law enforcement agency from taking additional measures in response to the receipt of a missing person report.

## History

Code 1981, § 38-3-112, enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 539, § 1/HB 728; Ga. L. 2007, p. 47, § 38/SB 103; Code 1981, § 35-3-172, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2008, p. 233, § 1/SB 202; Ga. L. 2014, p. 704, § 3/SB 23.

## Editor's Notes

Ga. L. 2014, p. 704, § 1/SB 23, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Stacey Nicole English Act.’”