O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-16-15 (2019)

Adjutant general authorized to empower contract security guards to make arrests and carry firearms upon and surrounding National Guard facilities

✓ 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 adjutant general is authorized to empower service contract security guards employed by the Department of Defense with the power and authority to make summary arrests of persons violating the laws of this state or the United States upon and surrounding any Georgia Air National Guard or Georgia Army National Guard facility. In case of such arrests, the service contract security guard shall as soon as possible deliver the arrested person or persons to the custody of the sheriff of the county wherein the offense was committed. The adjutant general shall also have the power and authority to authorize service contract security guards to carry firearms in the official performance of their duties.

History

Ga. L. 1976, p. 471, § 2.

Annotations

Cross references. - Employment of nonuniformed investigators to protect

state property, § 35-1-6. Duties of adjutant general generally, § 38-2-151.