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2018 Georgia Code 35-8-23 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
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TITLE 35 LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND AGENCIES

Section 8. Employment and Training of Peace Officers, 35-8-1 through 35-8-27.

ARTICLE 9 GEORGIA INFORMATION SHARING AND ANALYSIS CENTER

35-8-23. (For effective date, see note.) Basic training course for communications officers; certification requirements; duties of council; rules and regulations.

  1. As used in this Code section, the term "communications officer" means and includes any person employed by the state or a local governmental agency to receive, process, or transmit public safety information and dispatch law enforcement officers, firefighters, medical personnel, or emergency management personnel.
  2. Any person employed on or after July 1, 1995, as a communications officer shall satisfactorily complete a basic training course approved by the council. Persons who are employed on July 1, 1994, shall register with the council and may be certified by voluntarily complying with the certification process. Any person who fails to comply with the registration or certification process of the council shall not perform any duties of a communications officer and may have his or her certificate sanctioned or revoked.
  3. (For effective date, see note.) The council shall conduct administrative compliance reviews with respect to the requirements of this Code section. The council, in coordination with the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority, shall be authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to facilitate the administration and coordination of standards, certification, and compliance reviews consistent with the provisions of this Code section.
  4. On and after July 1, 1998, the basic training course for communications officers shall include training in the use of telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDD's), and no person shall on or after that date be certified by the council under this Code section unless such person has satisfactorily completed such training.

(Code 1981, §35-8-23, enacted by Ga. L. 1994, p. 1355, § 2.1; Ga. L. 1997, p. 1488, § 7; Ga. L. 1998, p. 540, § 1; Ga. L. 2018, p. 689, § 3-1/HB 751.)

Delayed effective date.

- Subsections (a) and (c), as set out above, become effective January 1, 2019. For version of subsections (a) and (c) in effect until January 1, 2019, see the 2018 amendment note.

The 2018 amendment, effective January 1, 2019, inserted "the state or" in the middle of subsection (a); and inserted ", in coordination with the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority," near the beginning of the second sentence of subsection (c). See Editor's notes for applicability.

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2018, p. 689, § 4-1(b)/HB 751, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "(b) The provisions of this Act shall not in any manner diminish, extinguish, reduce, or affect any cause of action for audits, services, or the recovery of funds from service providers which may have existed prior to January 1, 2019. Any such cause of action is expressly preserved."

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