O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 49-5-18 (2019)
Instituting or intervening in legal proceedings
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The commissioner is authorized to institute or to intervene in any legal proceedings necessary to the performance of duties and responsibilities of the department and to the enforcement of this article and provisions of policies, standards, rules, and regulations established by the board in conformity with this article as may be commensurate with the legal status of the department to a child or youth committed to the care, custody, or control of the department or as may otherwise be specifically provided for in this article.
History
Ga. L. 1963, p. 81, § 19.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2018–2018 · leading case: Ga. Dep't of Human Servs. v. Steiner, 815 S.E.2d 883 (Ga. 2018).
Ga. Dep't of Human Servs. v. Steiner, 815 S.E.2d 883 (Ga. 2018). “See OCGA §§ 49-5-18 - 49-5-187. The Act requires that DFCS investigate reports of child abuse and, if the abuse investigator finds by a preponderance of the evidence that an act of child abuse occurred, information must be added to the registry about the abuse, the abuser, the…”
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