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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 37. MENTAL HEALTH · Chapter 1. GOVERNING AND REGULATION OF MENTAL HEALTH · Article 5. ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES · Part 1. INSPECTION WARRANTS

37-1-72. Issuance; grounds.

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

  1. (a)

    Inspection warrants shall be issued only by a judge of a court of record whose territorial jurisdiction encompasses the property to be inspected.#

  2. (b)

    The issuing judge shall issue the warrant when the judge is satisfied that the following conditions are met:#

    1. (1)

      The one seeking the warrant must establish under oath or affirmation that the property to be inspected is to be inspected as a part of a legally authorized program of inspection which includes that property or that there is probable cause for believing that there is a condition, object, activity, or circumstance which legally justifies such an inspection of that property; and#

    2. (2)

      The issuing judge determines that the issuance of the warrant is authorized by this part.#

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 1933, §§ 88-303a, 88-304a, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 693, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 3-1/HB 228.

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

Text read from t37-t39-(v28)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V28, 2021 edition, page 46; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4eed692485f5.