O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 42-5-21 (2019)

Family Violence Counseling Program

✓ 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 department shall provide within the correctional system a Family Violence Counseling Program. The program shall be made available to every person sentenced to the custody of the state who committed an offense which has been identified to involve family violence as such term is defined in Code Section 19-13-1; provided, however, that the provisions of this Code section shall not apply to a person who has been sentenced to the punishment of death or to those deemed mentally incompetent.

History

Code 1981, § 42-5-21, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 1113, § 1.

ARTICLE 2 WARDENS, SUPERINTENDENTS, AND OTHER PERSONNEL

Annotations

Cross references. Indemnification of prison guards, and

other personnel for death or disability in line of duty, § 45-9-80 et seq.