O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 20-8-4 (2019)

Exemption of campus policemen and security personnel of University System of Georgia and Technical College System of Georgia

✓ 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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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.

History

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

Annotations

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."

Law reviews. - For article on the 2018 amendment of this Code section, see 35 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 45 (2018).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

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

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1990–2014 · leading case: Hartley v. Agnes Scott Coll., 759 S.E.2d 857 (Ga. 2014).
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Hartley v. Agnes Scott Coll., 759 S.E.2d 857 (Ga. 2014). · cites it 2× “Compare OCGA § 20-8-4 (exempting “campus policemen and other security personnel of the University System of Georgia,” which is a state government entity, from the Campus Policemen Act).”
State v. Harber, 401 S.E.2d 57 (Ga. Ct. App. 1990). · cites it 4× “See OCGA § 20-8-4. Accordingly, Hill v. State, supra, erroneously relied upon the 1970 opinion of the Attorney General rather than subsequent judicial and statutory authority and, as the result, OCGA § 20-3-72 was misconstrued as evincing anything other than a mere expression of…”
State v. Durr, 618 S.E.2d 117 (Ga. Ct. App. 2005). · cites it 2× “The legislature then provided an “exemption,” which somewhat ambiguously states: 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…”
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