2020 Georgia Code
Title 42 - Penal Institutions
Chapter 3 - Community Supervision and Transition
Article 3 - Community Service
§ 42-3-54. Applicability of Articles 2, 3, and 6 of This Chapter

Article 2 of Chapter 8 of this title shall be applicable to offenders sentenced to community service or educational advancement pursuant to this article. Article 3 of Chapter 8 of this title shall be applicable to first offenders sentenced to community service or educational advancement pursuant to this article. Article 6 of Chapter 8 of this title shall be applicable to misdemeanor or ordinance violator offenders sentenced to community service or educational advancement pursuant to this article.

(Code 1981, §42-3-54, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 1-1/HB 310; Ga. L. 2018, p. 550, § 2-11/SB 407.)

The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, substituted the present provisions of this Code section for the former provisions, which read: "(a) The provisions of Article 2 of Chapter 8 of this title shall be applicable to offenders sentenced to community service as a condition of probation pursuant to this article. The provisions of Article 3 of Chapter 8 of this title shall be applicable to first offenders sentenced pursuant to this article. The provisions of Article 6 of Chapter 8 of this title shall be applicable to misdemeanor or ordinance violator offenders sentenced to community service as a condition of probation pursuant to this article.

"(b) Any offender who provides live-in community service but who is later incarcerated for breaking the conditions of probation or for any other cause may be awarded good time for each day of live-in community service the same as if such offender were in prison for such number of days."

- For article on the 2018 amendment of this Code section, see 35 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 45 (2018).

ARTICLE 4 PRETRIAL RELEASE AND DIVERSION PROGRAMS

Editor's notes.

- This article is the same as or substantially similar to former Article 5 of Chapter 8 of Title 42.