Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 45. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES · Chapter 9. INSURING AND INDEMNIFICATION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES · Article 5. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, FIREMEN, PRISON GUARDS, AND PUBLICLY EMPLOYED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS · Part 1. GEORGIA STATE INDEMNIFICATION FUND

45-9-82. Establishment of indemnification program.

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

(a)
There is established a program to provide for indemnification with respect to the:#
1. (1)
  Death of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, or prison guard who is or has been killed in the line of duty subsequent to January 1, 1973;#
2. (2)
  Permanent disability of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, or prison guard who is or has been permanently disabled in the line of duty subsequent to January 1, 1973;#
3. (3)
  Death or permanent disability of any emergency medical technician who is killed or permanently disabled or who has been killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty subsequent to January 1, 1977;#
4. (4)
  Death or permanent disability of any emergency management rescue specialist who is killed or permanently disabled on or after January 1, 1991; and#
5. (5)
  Death or permanent disability of any state highway employee who is killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty on or after January 1, 1990.#
(b)
Such program shall be administered by the department.#

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. 1978, p. 1914, § 3; Ga. L. 1980, p. 700, § 3; Ga. L. 1987, p. 822, § 3; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1312, § 3; Ga. L. 2002, p. 660, § 4(16); Ga. L. 2002, p. 1259, §§ 4, 11(16); Ga. L. 2008, p. 470, § 1/SB 254; Ga. L. 2023, p. 580, § 1/HB 437, effective May 3, 2023.

Amendments

The 2023 amendment, effective May 3, 2023, deleted “, subject to review by the commission” at the end of subsection (b).

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Text read from t45-(v33)-pdf.pdf, Volume V33, 2016 edition, 2025 supplement, page 52; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 ec9f1ae9c82d.

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