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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 42. PENAL INSTITUTIONS · Chapter 2. BOARD AND DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

42-2-16. Retaining department issued weapons.

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

  1. (a)

    An employee leaving the service of the department under honorable conditions who has accumulated 20 or more years of service with the department as a certified officer shall be entitled as part of such employee’s compensation to retain his or her department issued weapon.#

  2. (b)

    The board is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations for the implementation of this Code section.#

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, § 42-2-16, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 82, § 1/HB 482.

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

Text read from t41-t42-(v29a)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V29A, 2023 edition, page 191; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1e701a9ff15b.