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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 42. PENAL INSTITUTIONS · Chapter 3. COMMUNITY SUPERVISION AND TRANSITION · Article 3. COMMUNITY SERVICE

42-3-51. Community service or educational advancement program; letter of application; requirements; limitation of liability.

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

  1. (a)

    Agencies desiring to allow offenders to participate in their program shall file with the court a letter of application showing:#

    1. (1)

      Eligibility;#

    2. (2)

      Number of offenders who may be placed with the agency;#

    3. (3)

      Work to be performed by the offender; and#

    4. (4)

      Provisions for supervising the offender.#

  2. (b)

    An agency selected by the court shall work with offenders who are assigned to the agency by the court. If an offender violates a court order, the agency shall report such violation to the community service officer.#

  3. (c)

    If an agency violates any court order or this article, the offender shall be removed from the agency and the agency shall no longer be eligible to participate in the court’s community service or in an educational advancement program.#

  4. (d)

    No agency or community service officer shall be liable at law as a result of any of such agency’s or community service officer’s acts performed while an offender was participating in the court’s community service or in an educational advancement program. This limitation of liability shall not apply to actions on the part of any agency or community service officer which constitute gross negligence, recklessness, or willful misconduct.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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, § 42-3-51, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 1-1/HB 310; Ga. L. 2018, p. 550, § 2-11/SB 407; Ga. L. 2019, p. 1056, § 42/SB 52; Ga. L. 2020, p. 493, § 42/SB 429.

Law reviews

For article on the 2018 amendment of this Code section, see 35 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 45 (2018).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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, pages 206 to 207; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1e701a9ff15b.