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Title 49. SOCIAL SERVICES · Chapter 2. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES · Article 2. INSPECTION WARRANTS FOR RESIDENTIAL CHILD CARE LICENSING

49-2-22. Procedure for issuance of inspection warrants.

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

  1. (a)

    Inspection warrants shall be issued only by a judge of a court of record whose territorial jurisdiction encompasses the property to be inspected.#

  2. (b)

    The issuing judge shall issue the warrant when the judge is satisfied that the following conditions are met:#

    1. (1)

      The one seeking the warrant must establish under oath or affirmation that the property to be inspected is to be inspected as a part of a legally authorized program of inspection which includes that property or that there is probable cause for believing that there is a condition, object, activity, or circumstance which legally justifies such an inspection of that property; and#

    2. (2)

      The issuing judge determines that the issuance of the warrant is authorized by this article.#

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

Code 1981, § 49-2-22, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2009, “this article” was substituted for “this part” at the end of paragraph (b)(2).

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

Text read from t49-t50-ch1-12-(v38)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V38, 2023 edition, page 54; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 b1a50b0e3917.