O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 35-1-18 (2019)

Prohibition on minimum waiting periods for initiating missing person report

✓ 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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No law enforcement agency shall implement a policy or practice which mandates a minimum waiting period before initiating a missing person report with such agency; provided, however, that it shall remain within the discretion of the law enforcement agency to determine what action, if any, is required in response to such a report.

History

Code 1981, § 35-1-18, enacted by Ga. L. 2014, p. 704, § 2/SB 23.

Annotations

Cross references. - Kidnapping, § 16-5-40. Immediate investigation for missing person with Alzheimer’s disease, § 35-1-8.

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2014, Code Section 35-1-18, as enacted by Ga. L. 2014, p. 742, § 1/HB 845, was redesignated as Code Section 35-1-19. Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2014, p. 704,

§ 1/SB 23, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: ‘‘This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Stacey Nicole English Act.’ ’’ Ga. L. 2014, p. 704, § 5/SB 23, approved by the Governor on April 24, 2014, provided that the effective date of this Code section is July 1, 2013. See Op. Att’y Gen. No. 76-76 for construction of effective date provisions that precede the date of approval by the Governor.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2019–2019 · leading case: Hammonds v. Gray Transp., Inc., 371 F. Supp. 3d 1340 (M.D. Ga. 2019).

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Hammonds v. Gray Transp., Inc., 371 F. Supp. 3d 1340 (M.D. Ga. 2019). · cites it 2× “ct litigation involving such investigation and prosecution has become final or otherwise terminated; and provided, further, that this paragraph shall not apply to records in the possession of an agency that is the subject of the pending investigation or prosecution; and…”

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