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title: Title 17, Chapter 15. Victim Compensation
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date: 2025
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heading: VICTIM COMPENSATION
title_heading: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
section_count: 17
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# Title 17, Chapter 15. Victim Compensation

Title 17. Criminal Procedure

17 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 17-15-1, Legislative intent, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-1.md
- 17-15-2, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-2.md
- 17-15-3, Georgia Crime Victims Compensation Board; members; director of Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-3.md
- 17-15-4, Powers of board, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-4.md
- 17-15-5, Filing of claims; verification; contents, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-5.md
- 17-15-6, Investigation; decision by director; review by board; report to claimant, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-6.md
- 17-15-7, Persons eligible for awards, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-7.md
- 17-15-8, Required findings; amount of award; method of payment; rejection of claim; reductions; exemptions; effective date for awards; psychological counseling for relatives of deceased; memorials for victims of DUI homicide, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-8.md
- 17-15-9, Georgia Crime Victims Emergency Fund created; administration; moneys; payments authorized, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-9.md
- 17-15-10, Insufficient funds to pay authorized award, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-10.md
- 17-15-11, False claims, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-11.md
- 17-15-12, Effect of accepting award, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-12.md
- 17-15-13, Debt to state created; payment as condition of probation or parole; payment into fund, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-13.md
- 17-15-14, Funding to victim service providers for disseminating information, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-14.md
- 17-15-15, Responsibility for cost of forensic medical examination, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-15.md
- 17-15-16, Funding for costs of forensic interviews for persons less than 18 years of age or developmentally disabled, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-16.md
- 17-15-17, Return of fines and fees paid by defendants with vacated convictions; regulation; payments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-15-17.md