O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-5-22 (2019)

Issuance; grounds

✓ 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) Inspection warrants shall be issued only by a judge of a court of record whose territorial jurisdiction encompasses the property to be inspected.

(b) The issuing judge shall issue the warrant when he is satisfied that the following conditions are met:

(1) The one seeking the warrant must establish under oath or affirmation that the property to be inspected is to be inspected as a part of a legally authorized program of inspection which includes that property or that there is probable cause for believing that there is a condition, object, activity, or circumstance which legally justifies such an inspection of that property; and

(2) The issuing judge determines that the issuance of the warrant is authorized by this chapter.

History

Code 1933, §§ 88-303A, 88-304A, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 693, § 1.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Health, §§ 58, 60, 66, 72, 73.

C.J.S. - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 81 et seq.