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Title 42. PENAL INSTITUTIONS · Chapter 4. JAILS · Article 4. DEDUCTIONS FROM INMATE ACCOUNTS FOR EXPENSES

42-4-70. Definitions.

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

  1. As used in this article, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Detention facility” means a municipal or county jail used for the detention of persons charged with or convicted of either a felony, a misdemeanor, or a municipal offense.#

  3. (2)

    “Inmate” means a person who is detained in a detention facility by reason of being charged with or convicted of a felony, a misdemeanor, or a municipal offense.#

  4. (3)

    “Medical treatment” means each visit initiated by the inmate to an institutional physician; physician’s extender, including a physician assistant or a nurse practitioner; dentist; optometrist; or psychiatrist for examination or treatment.#

  5. (4)

    “Officer in charge” means the sheriff, if the detention facility is under his supervision, or the warden, captain, or superintendent having the supervision of any other detention facility.#

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, § 42-4-70, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 2942, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1059, § 2; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1081, § 2; Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 3/HB 509.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 1995, p. 1059, effective July 1, 1995, purported to amend paragraph (1) of subsection (a); however, this Code section does not contain a subsection (a), and the amendment is deemed to apply to paragraph (1) following the undesignated introductory paragraph.

Law reviews

For note on 1992 enactment of this Code section, see 9 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 310 (1992). For review of 1996 legislation relating to jails, see 13 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 269 and 273 (1996).

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

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