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GEORGIA CODE (Last Updated: August 20, 2013) |
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Title 42. PENAL INSTITUTIONS |
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Chapter 2. BOARD AND DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS |
| § 42-2-1. Creation |
| § 42-2-2. Board members, officers, records, and compensation |
| § 42-2-3. Board meetings |
| § 42-2-4. Department created |
| § 42-2-5. Administrative functions of department |
| § 42-2-5.1. Special school district for school age youth; education programs for adult offenders |
| § 42-2-6. Office of commissioner created; general duties; appointment; compensation |
| § 42-2-7. Duties of commissioner relating to department retirements |
| § 42-2-8. Additional duties of commissioner |
| § 42-2-9. Selection of department personnel; establishment and maintenance of roster of employees |
| § 42-2-10. Office of board, commissioner, and staff |
| § 42-2-11. Powers and duties of board; adoption of rules and regulations |
| § 42-2-12. Reasonableness of rules and regulations |
| § 42-2-13. Grants to municipal corporations and counties for local jails and correctional institutions |
| § 42-2-14. Power of Governor to declare state of emergency with regard to jail and prison overcrowding |
| § 42-2-15. Employee benefit fund |
| § 42-2-16. Retaining department issued weapons |
REFS & ANNOS
TITLE 42 Chapter 2 NOTE
EDITOR'S NOTES. --Ga. L. 1985, p. 283, § 1 changed the name of the Department of Offender Rehabilitation, the Board of Offender Rehabilitation, and the commissioner of offender rehabilitation to the Department of Corrections, the Board of Corrections, and the commissioner of corrections, respectively, and amended sections throughout the Code to conform to the change. Section 2 of that Act, not codified by the General Assembly, provided as follows: "For administrative convenience, equipment and supplies bearing the name Board of Offender Rehabilitation, Department of Offender Rehabilitation, or commissioner of offender rehabilitation may be used by the Board of Corrections, Department of Corrections, or commissioner of corrections as if such equipment or supplies bore the name Board of Corrections, Department of Corrections, or commissioner of corrections."
RESEARCH REFERENCES
AM. JUR. 2D. --60 Am. Jur. 2d, Penal and Correctional Institutions, §§ 21, 22.
C.J.S. --72 C.J.S., Prisons and Rights of Prisoners, §§ 14-19.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
AM. JUR. 2D. --60 Am. Jur. 2d, Penal and Correctional Institutions, §§ 21, 22.
C.J.S. --72 C.J.S., Prisons and Rights of Prisoners, §§ 14-19.