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O.C.G.A. § 15-18-31 — Referrals to defensive driving programs | Georgia Code

O.C.G.A. § 15-18-31 (2018) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Scholar Amendments

TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 18. Prosecuting Attorneys, 15-18-1 through 15-18-99.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

15-18-31. Referrals to defensive driving programs.

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.

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

Effective date.

- This Code section became effective July 1, 2014.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

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

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