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2024 CODE OF GEORGIA
Title 17 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (§§ 17-1-1 — 17-21-4)
Chapter 4 - ARREST OF PERSONS (§§ 17-4-1 — 17-4-80)
Article 2 - ARREST BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS GENERALLY (§§ 17-4-20 — 17-4-30)
- Section 17-4-20 - Authorization of arrests with and without warrants generally; use of deadly force; adoption or promulgation of conflicting regulations, policies, ordinances, and resolutions; authority of nuclear power facility security officer
- Section 17-4-20.1 - Investigation of family violence; preparation of written report; review of report by defendant arrested for family violence; compilation of statistics
- Section 17-4-20.2 - Bias Crime Report; requirements; use of reports; publication
- Section 17-4-21 - Duty of arresting officer to take arrested person before judicial officer; right of arrested person to select judicial officer
- Section 17-4-22 - Authority of peace officers to make arrests not to be denied because of race, creed, or national origin of peace officers or persons arrested
- Section 17-4-23 - Issuance of citation in lieu of arrest; issuance of warrants for arrest for failure of persons charged to appear in court; bond
- Section 17-4-24 - Duty of law enforcement officers to execute penal warrants; summoning of posses
- Section 17-4-25 - Power to make arrests in any county; arrested persons taken before judicial officer; transportation costs; holding in county other than one in which offense committed; transport to regional jail
- Section 17-4-25.1 - Transport of arrested person to jurisdiction in which offense committed; transport of prisoner outside county or municipality
- Section 17-4-26 - Duty to bring persons arrested before judicial officer within 72 hours; notice to accused of time and place of commitment hearing; effect of failure to notify
- Section 17-4-27 - Duty to maintain information about persons arrested by law enforcement officers under their supervision; inspection of records
- Section 17-4-28 - Advising, encouraging, or procuring dismissal or settlement of warrant by arresting officer
- Section 17-4-29 - Collecting or receiving costs or other charges of prosecutor or defendant by arresting officer before warrant returned
- Section 17-4-30 - Arrest of hearing impaired persons
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