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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT · Chapter 8. COUNTY POLICE

36-8-5. Powers generally.

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

  1. Under the direction and control of the county governing authority, the county police shall have:

  2. (1)

    The same power to make arrests and to execute and return criminal warrants and processes in the county of their election or appointment only, as sheriffs have; and#

  3. (2)

    All the powers of sheriffs as peace officers in the county of their election or appointment.#

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

Ga. L. 1909, p. 156, § 3; Civil Code 1910, § 851; Ga. L. 1914, p. 142, § 3; Code 1933, § 23-1403; Ga. L. 1961, p. 217, § 1.

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

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