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

O.C.G.A. § 36-9-8 (2019)

Protection of county property by sheriff

✓ 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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The public grounds and other county property are placed in the keeping of the sheriff of the county, subject to the order of the county governing authority; and it is his or her duty to preserve them from injury or waste and to prevent intrusions upon them.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 471; Code 1868, § 533; Code 1873, § 499; Code 1882, § 499; Civil Code 1895, § 354; Civil

Code 1910, § 403; Code 1933, § 91-705; Ga. L. 2006, p. 560, § 2/SB 462.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in McDonald v. Marshall, 185 Ga. 438, 195 S.E. 571 (1938); Favors v. State, 104 Ga. App. 854, 123 S.E.2d 207 (1961);

Wheeler v. DeKalb County, 249 Ga. 678, 292 S.E.2d 855 (1982); Dorsey v. State, 279 Ga. 534, 615 S.E.2d 512 (2005).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 2005–2017 · leading case: Dorsey v. State, 615 S.E.2d 512 (Ga. 2005).
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Dorsey v. State, 615 S.E.2d 512 (Ga. 2005). · cites it 4× “OCGA §§ 36-9-8 (duty of sheriff to preserve county property from injury or waste); 15-16-10(a)(8) (sheriff must perform duties imposed by law); 15-16-19(b) (sheriff shall receive no compensation except annual salary fixed by law); Johnson v.”
Brown v. Dorsey, 625 S.E.2d 16 (Ga. Ct. App. 2005). · cites it 2× “34 OCGA§ 36-9-8. See Dorsey v. State, supra at 537 (1).”
Lee Andrew Jackson v. Glynn Cnty. Georgia, 683 F. App'x 867 (11th Cir. 2017). “placed in [his] keeping,” Ga. Code Ann. § 36-9-8 . Because Glynn County did' not create the procedures for admission to the detention center or control what amenities were available to detainees, it could not be, in the words of the district court, “liable for the conduct that…”
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