Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 9. TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS GENERALLY · Article 4. TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS · Part 1. TRANSPORTATION BY CARRIERS GENERALLY

46-9-138. Granting of annual passes by common carriers to sheriffs and their deputies.

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

Common carriers operating in this state may issue annual passes to all sheriffs and their lawful deputies, provided that, as used in this Code section, the term “sheriffs and their lawful deputies” means one sheriff and one lawful deputy for each county; provided, further, that whenever any sheriff or deputy travels on such free pass, such sheriff or deputy shall have no right to charge or collect, from any source, railroad fare covering such trip.

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. 1922, p. 173, § 1; Code 1933, § 18-218; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 46(65)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “provided that, as used in this Code section, the term ‘sheriffs and their lawful deputies’ means” for “provided that the term ‘sheriffs and their lawful deputies,’ as used in this Code section, means”.

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

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