O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-3-295 (2019)

Security officers

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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The North Georgia Mountains Authority is authorized to appoint security officers to safeguard the property of the authority and the safety of the general public. The duly appointed security officers of the authority are authorized, while on the premises over which the author192 ity exercises dominion and control, to carry weapons, to make arrests, and to exercise such of the police power of the state as may be necessary to maintain peace and order and to enforce any and all lawful zoning, user, and personal conduct regulations.

History

Ga. L. 1971, p. 315, § 1.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Security officers not required to become certified as peace officers. - Security officers of the authority are neither required nor authorized to become

certified as peace officers. 1972 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 72-27 (See also 1990 Op. Att’y Gen. 90-11).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 59 Am. Jur. 2d, Parks, Squares, and Playgrounds, § 12.