---
title: O.C.G.A. § 37-12-13. Liability.
collection: code
id: 37-12-13
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 37-12-13 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-12-13
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-12-13.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-12-13/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t37-t39-(v28)-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=6f93000f_0#page=151
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-12.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-12-12.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-12-14.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: MENTAL HEALTH / GEORGIA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND PEACE OFFICER CO-RESPONDER PROGRAMS
---

# O.C.G.A. § 37-12-13. Liability.

Any peace officer, law enforcement agency, community service board, community service board team member, public safety agency, communications officer, or any employee or contractor thereof, who acts in good faith in compliance with the provisions of this chapter shall be immune from civil or criminal liability for his or her actions in connection with any of the following decisions: to dispatch or not dispatch a co-responder team, to incarcerate an individual, to transport an individual to an emergency receiving facility, or not take an individual into custody.

## History

Code 1981, § 37-12-13, enacted by Ga. L. 2022, p. 722, § 5/SB 403.