O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 42-9-57 (2019)

Effect of chapter on probation power of courts; cooperation by board with the department

✓ 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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Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as repealing any power given to any court of this state to place offenders on probation or to provide for terms of offender supervison. The board shall be authorized to cooperate with the department, except that it shall not assume or pay any financial obligations thereof.

History

Ga. L. 1943, p. 185, § 22; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 42; Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 5-90/HB 310.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 6-1/HB 310, not codified by the General Assembly, pro-

vides that: “This Act shall become effective July 1, 2015, and shall apply to sentences entered on or after such date.” Law reviews. For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 231 (2015).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Separate and distinct functions. - Functions of the board are legislatively mandated to remain separate and distinct

from those of the Department of Corrections’ Probation Division. 1986 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 86-7.