O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 30-5-10 (2019)

Cooperative effort in development of programs relating to abuse and exploitation of disabled adults, elder persons, and residents of long-term care facilities

✓ 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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The department, the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of the State of Georgia, and the Institute of Continuing Judicial Education shall develop programs for the education and training of social services, criminal justice, and judicial professionals concerning the abuse, neglect, and exploitation of disabled adults, elder persons, and residents of long-term care facilities, as defined in Code Section 16-5-100. Said agencies, together with any other agency of this state which is involved in the investigation of the abuse, neglect, or exploitation of disabled adults, elder persons, and residents of long-term care facilities, as defined in Code Section 16-5-100, are directed to cooperate in the development of such training programs to the extent allowable under Article I, Section II, Paragraph III of the Constitution of this state.

History

(Code 1981, § 30-5-10, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 1085, § 7; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-2/HB 228; Ga. L. 2013, p. 524, § 1-10/HB 78.)

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2000, ‘‘Officer’’ was substituted for ‘‘Officers’’ in the first sentence. Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2000, p. 1085, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly,

provides: ‘‘This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Georgia Protection of Elder Persons Act of 2000’.’’

Law reviews. - For note on 2000 enactment of O.C.G.A. § 30-5-10, see 17 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 93 (2000).