Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

42-5-34. Powers of arrest of wardens, superintendents, and deputies.

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

Wardens and superintendents shall have authority to deputize any person in their employ. Wardens, superintendents, and their deputies are legally constituted arresting officers, with or without warrants, for the purpose of arresting persons violating Code Sections 42-5-14 through 42-5-18. Any person resisting arrest shall be dealt with as the law directs for resisting an officer.

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. 1961, p. 45, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 1170, § 1.

Administrative rules and regulations

Police Officer Powers, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Board of Corrections, Departmental Operations, Personnel, Rule 125-2-1-.09.

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