Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 11. EJECTMENT AND PROCEEDINGS AGAINST INTRUDERS · Article 2. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST INTRUDERS

44-11-31. Sheriff and other peace officers competent to administer oath to person in possession.

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The sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, marshal, or other individual certified by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council shall be a competent officer to administer the oath to the person in possession if he desires to tender the counteraffidavit provided for in Code Section 44-11-30.

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. 1853-54, p. 52, § 2; Code 1863, § 3980; Code 1868, § 4001; Code 1873, § 4073; Code 1882, § 4073; Civil Code 1895, § 4809; Civil Code 1910, § 5381; Code 1933, § 105-1502; Ga. L. 2024, p. 400, § 5/HB 1017, effective April 24, 2024; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 44(8)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective April 24, 2024, inserted “, sheriff deputy, constable, marshal, or other individual certified by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council” in this Code section. The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “deputy sheriff,” for “sheriff deputy,”.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2024, p. 400, § 1/HB 1017, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Georgia Squatter Reform Act.’” Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 44(8)/SB 153, which amended this Code section, purported to amend Code Section 43-11-31 but actually amended Code Section 44-11-31.

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