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title: O.C.G.A. § 45-9-84.2. Georgia State Indemnification Fund — Authorization for appropriation of moneys to the fund; moneys from other sources.
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# O.C.G.A. § 45-9-84.2. Georgia State Indemnification Fund — Authorization for appropriation of moneys to the fund; moneys from other sources.

(a) The General Assembly is authorized to appropriate funds to be placed in the Georgia State Indemnification Fund for the purpose of providing for indemnification with respect to:

(1) The death or disability of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, or prison guard who is or has been killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty subsequent to January 1, 1973;

(2) The death or disability of any emergency medical technician who is killed or permanently disabled or has been killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty subsequent to January 1, 1977;

(3) The death or disability of any emergency management rescue specialist who is killed or permanently disabled on or after January 1, 1991; and

(4) The death or disability of any state highway employee who is or has been killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty subsequent to January 1, 1990.

(b) Funds appropriated to the Georgia State Indemnification Fund shall also be used for the purpose of defraying the expenses and costs incurred by the department in the administration of this part. In addition, the department is authorized to accept for deposit in the Georgia State Indemnification Fund any other funds from any other source. All funds appropriated to the Georgia State Indemnification Fund shall be presumptively concluded to have been committed to the purpose for which they have been appropriated and shall not lapse.

## History

Ga. L. 1981, p. 477, § 2; Ga. L. 1987, p. 822, § 5; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1312, § 4; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 19; Ga. L. 2000, p. 283, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 660, § 4(17); Ga. L. 2002, p. 1259, §§ 6, 11(17); 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, added subsections (a) and (b) and paragraphs (a)(1) through (a)(4) designations to the previously undesignated provisions of this Code section; in subsection (a), substituted a colon for “the” at the end of the introductory paragraph; added “The” at the beginning of paragraphs (a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), and (a)(4); substituted a semicolon for “, the” at the end of paragraphs (a)(1) and (a)(2); substituted “; and” for “, and the” at the end of paragraph (a)(3); and substituted a period for “, as well as” in paragraph (a)(4); and, in the first sentence of subsection (b), added “Funds appropriated to the Georgia State Indemnification Fund shall also be used for the purpose of” at the beginning and deleted “and the commission” following “the department” near the end of the first sentence.