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# O.C.G.A. § 38-2-4. Persons exempted from militia duty; exception.

Persons within this state who are not citizens thereof and resident aliens shall not be liable to militia duty, except in repelling local invasions or suppressing insurrections.

## History

Laws 1818, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 367; Code 1863, § 1598; Code 1868, § 1660; Code 1873, § 1665; Code 1882, § 1665; Civil Code 1895, § 1819; Civil Code 1910, § 2176; Code 1933, § 79-306.

## Cross References

Rights of citizens of other states while in Georgia generally, § 1-2-9. Rights of aliens while in Georgia generally, § 1-2-11.