Georgia CommonsTitle 42. PENAL INSTITUTIONS · Chapter 8. PROBATION · Article 2. STATE-WIDE PROBATION SYSTEM
42-8-25. Employment of community service officers; assignment to circuits by DCS.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
DCS shall employ officers. DCS may assign one officer to each judicial circuit in this state or, for purposes of assignment, may consolidate two or more judicial circuits and assign one officer thereto. In the event DCS determines that more than one officer is needed for a particular circuit, additional officers may be assigned to the circuit. DCS is authorized to direct any officer to assist any other officer wherever assigned. In the event more than one officer is assigned to the same office or to the same division within a particular judicial circuit, DCS shall designate one of the officers to be in charge.
History
Ga. L. 1956, p. 27, § 5; Ga. L. 1958, p. 15, § 5; Ga. L. 1965, p. 413, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 604, § 4; Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 4-1/HB 310.
Editor's notes
Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 6-1/HB 310, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall become effective July 1, 2015, and shall apply to sentences entered on or after such date.”
Cross references
Duties of probation officers, § 15-11-67.
Law reviews
For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 231 (2015).
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