O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-18-31 (2019)

Referrals to defensive driving programs

✓ 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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When a prosecuting attorney determines that prosecution of a traffic offense, or municipal ordinance involving a traffic offense, is or is not warranted, and regardless of whether a court order is entered for such offense or a referral is made to a pretrial intervention, pretrial release, pretrial diversion program, or other similar pretrial program, a prosecuting attorney may condition any other action regarding such offense upon the satisfactory completion of a defensive driving course or defensive driving program approved by the Department of Driver Services but shall not be authorized to mandate the completion of any other driving program.

History

(Code 1981, § 15-18-31, enacted by Ga. L. 2014, p. 710, § 1-2/SB 298.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 53 Am. Jur. 2d, Mentally Impaired Persons, § 141.

ARTICLE 2 PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS’ COUNCIL Editor’s notes. - By resolution (Ga. L. 1986, p. 1204), the General Assembly urged certain public organizations and state agencies to develop programs for the

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