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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 42. PENAL INSTITUTIONS · Chapter 5. CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF STATE AND COUNTIES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

42-5-1. Definitions.

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

  1. As used in this chapter, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Board” means the Board of Corrections.#

  3. (2)

    “Commissioner” means the commissioner of corrections.#

  4. (3)

    “Department” means the Department of Corrections.#

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, § 42-5-1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 42; Ga. L. 1985, p. 283, § 1.

Editor's notes

This Code section was created as part of the Code revision and was thus enacted by Ga. L. 1981, Ex. Sess., p. 8 (Code enactment Act).

Cross references

Notification to Department of Corrections, Uniform Superior Court Rules, Rule 35.1.

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