Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 42. PENAL INSTITUTIONS · Chapter 5. CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF STATE AND COUNTIES · Article 2. WARDENS, SUPERINTENDENTS, AND OTHER PERSONNEL

42-5-30. Qualifications for wardens, superintendents, and other personnel; appointment of wardens of county correctional institutions.

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

The board shall by rule and regulation define the qualifications for wardens, superintendents, and other personnel employed in the state and county correctional institutions. The board shall by rule and regulation specify appropriate titles of personnel so employed, but no such personnel shall be known as or designated by the board as “guards” or “prison guards.” The wardens and deputy wardens of the various county correctional institutions shall be appointed by the governing authority of the county, subject to approval of the board, and shall serve at the pleasure of the county or the board.

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

Ga. L. 1956, p. 161, § 18; Ga. L. 1984, p. 639, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 417, § 1.

Administrative rules and regulations

County Correctional Institutions, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Board of Corrections, Administration, Organization, Rule 125-1-1-.08.

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