O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 35-2-71 (2019)

Powers and duties of security guards

✓ 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) While in the performance of their duties, such security guards shall have the same powers of arrest and the same powers to enforce law and order as the sheriff of the county and the chief of police of the municipality in this state in which any such security guards are performing their duties.

(b) While in the performance of their duties, such security guards shall also be authorized to exercise such powers and duties as are authorized by law for members of the Uniform Division of the department.

History

Ga. L. 1968, p. 475, § 4; Ga. L. 1987, p. 3, § 35.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, § 3. 70 Am. Jur. 2d, Sheriffs, Police, and Constables, § 31 et seq.

C.J.S. - 63 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 632 et seq.