Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 42. PENAL INSTITUTIONS · Chapter 8. PROBATION · Article 2. STATE-WIDE PROBATION SYSTEM

42-8-43. Liberal construction of article.

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This article shall be liberally construed so that its purposes may be achieved.

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. 27, § 20; Code 1981, § 42844; Code 1981, § 42-8-43, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 4-1/HB 310.

Editor's notes

Former Code Section 42-8-43 (Ga. L. 1956, p. 27, § 15; Ga. L. 1972, p. 604, § 11), relating to effect of article on existing county probation systems, was repealed by Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 4-1/HB 310, effective July 1, 2015. 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.”

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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