O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 42-5-62 (2019)

Forfeiture of contraband

✓ 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 possession by an inmate on his person or in his cell, immediate sleeping area, locker, or immediate place of work or assignment of any form of securities, bonds, coins, currency, or legal tender, unless expressly and specifically authorized by the individual institution concerned, shall constitute contraband and be subject to forfeiture. With respect to state correctional institutions, all such securities, bonds, coins, currency, or legal tender shall vest in the state and shall

STATE/COUNTY CORRECTIONAL INST.

be paid into the state treasury. With respect to county correctional institutions, all such currency and other items shall vest in the county and shall be paid into the county treasury.

History

Ga. L. 1980, p. 1095, § 1. Administrative rules and regulations. Institutional and Center Operations,

Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Board of Corrections, Chapter 125-3.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 60 Am. Jur. 2d, Penal and Correctional Institutions, § 104 et seq.

C.J.S. 72 C.J.S., Prisons and Rights of Prisoners, §§ 60, 72.