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2018 Georgia Code 20-8-4 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 20-8-4 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 20-8-4

TITLE 20 EDUCATION

Section 8. Campus Policemen, 20-8-1 through 20-8-7.

ARTICLE 2 COMPACT FOR EDUCATION

20-8-4. Exemption of campus policemen and security personnel of University System of Georgia and Technical College System of Georgia.

A campus policeman exercising the power of arrest pursuant to Code Section 20-3-72 or 20-4-39 providing campus policemen and other security personnel of the University System of Georgia or the Technical College System of Georgia with arrest powers for offenses committed upon university system property or Technical College System of Georgia property, respectively, shall be exempt from this chapter.

(Ga. L. 1977, p. 1160, § 4; Ga. L. 2018, p. 550, § 5-2/SB 407.)

The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, substituted the present provisions of this Code section for the former provisions, which read: "A campus policeman exercising the power of arrest pursuant to Code Section 20-3-72 providing campus policemen and other security personnel of the University System of Georgia with arrest powers for offenses committed upon university system property shall be exempt from this chapter."

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Hartley v. Agnes Scott College, 295 Ga. 458, 759 S.E.2d 857 (2014).

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Hartley v. Agnes Scott Coll., 295 Ga. 458 (Ga. 2014).

Cited 25 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jun 16, 2014 | 759 S.E.2d 857, 2014 Fulton County D. Rep. 1513

...as a law enforcement officer of the local government with police jurisdiction over such campus,” OCGA § 20-8-2, but even if the campus police officer were actually employed by that local government, he normally would not qualify as a “state officer or employee” with immunity under the GTCA. Compare OCGA § 20-8-4 (exempting “campus policemen 14 and other security personnel of the University System of Georgia,” which is a state government entity, from the Campus Policemen Act)....