Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 35. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND AGENCIES · Chapter 3. GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION · Article 3. ANTITERRORISM TASK FORCE

35-3-63. Creation; purposes.

Active

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

There is established a special Antiterrorism Task Force within the bureau. The task force shall operate independently of any other investigative operations within the bureau and shall devote itself to the tasks of identifying, investigating, arresting, and prosecuting individuals or groups of individuals who perform terroristic acts against a person or his residence on the basis of such person’s race, national origin, or religious persuasion.

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, § 35-3-63, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 393, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 35; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 35(14)/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 “bureau” for “Georgia Bureau of Investigation” twice and substituted “The task force” for “This Antiterrorism Task Force” at the beginning of the second sentence.

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