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

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 College

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2014-06-16

Citation: 295 Ga. 458, 759 S.E.2d 857, 2014 Fulton County D. Rep. 1513, 2014 WL 2695526, 2014 Ga. LEXIS 502

Snippet: employee” with immunity under the GTCA. Compare OCGA § 20-8-4 (exempting “campus policemen and other security