O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 17-6-7 (2019)

Liability of arresting officer for failure to account for cash receipts and bonds

✓ 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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All receipts issued to arresting officers and all cash bonds received under Code Sections 17-6-5 and 17-6-6 shall be accounted for by the receiving officers to the court from which the receipts were issued and, in the event that any such officer fails to account for same, he shall be personally liable for any default and may be punished as for contempt by the court, in addition to any other penalties which are provided for by law in such cases.

History

Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 331, § 3.

Annotations

Law reviews. - For comment on Land

v. State, 103 Ga. App. 496, 119 S.E.2d 809 (1961), see 14 Mercer L. Rev. 452 (1963).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 70 Am. Jur. 2d, Sheriffs, Police, and Constables, § 56 et seq.