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

O.C.G.A. § 35-1-12 (2019)

Chief of police or law enforcement head; exception

✓ 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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Any county, municipality, or other public subdivision of this state which has a law enforcement agency shall declare a chief of police or a law enforcement head for such law enforcement agency who is required to be a certified peace officer pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 8 of this title, known as the ‘‘Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Act.’’ The provisions of this Code section shall not apply to sheriffs.

History

Code 1981, § 35-1-12, enacted by Ga. L. 1999, p. 777, § 1.

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1999, Code

Section 35-1-11 as enacted by Ga. L. 1999, p. 777, § 1, was redesignated as Code Section 35-1-12.