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2016 Georgia Code
Title 42 - Penal Institutions
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
- § 42-2-5.2. Educational programs for adult offenders; awarding of Program and Treatment Completion Certificate
- § 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
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