2022 Georgia Code
Title 42 - Penal Institutions
Chapter 8 - Probation
Article 2 - State-Wide Probation System
§ 42-8-30. Applicability of This Article When Private Probation Services Are Utilized

In any county where the chief judge of the superior court, state court, municipal court, probate court, or magistrate court has provided for probation services for such court through agreement with a private corporation, enterprise, or agency or has established a county or municipal probation system for such court pursuant to Article 6 of this chapter, the provisions of this article relating to supervision services shall not apply to defendants sentenced in any such court.

History. Ga. L. 1956, p. 27, § 16; Ga. L. 1972, p. 604, § 12; Code 1981, § 42-8-30 , as redesignated by Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 4-1/HB 310.

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, redesignated former Code Section 42-8-30.1 as present Code Section 42-8-30, and substituted “Article 6 of this chapter” for “Code Section 42-8-100” and deleted “probation” preceding “supervision” near the end. See Editor’s notes for applicability.

Cross references.

Applicability of this state’s correction laws to probationers’ found in other states, T. 42, C. 11.

Editor’s notes.

Former Code Section 42-8-30 (Ga. L. 1956, p. 27, § 16; Ga. L. 1972, p. 604, § 12), relating to supervision of juvenile offenders by probation supervisors, was repealed by Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 4-1/HB 310, effective July 1, 2015.

Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 6-1/HB 310, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall become effective July 1, 2015, and shall apply to sentences entered on or after such date.”

Law reviews.

For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 231 (2015).