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2024 CODE OF GEORGIA
Title 17 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (§§ 17-1-1 — 17-21-4)
Chapter 5 - SEARCHES AND SEIZURES (§§ 17-5-1 — 17-5-100)
Article 4 - EVIDENCE OF SEXUAL ASSUALT (§§ 17-5-70 — 17-5-74)
Section 17-5-70 - Definitions
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GA Code § 17-5-70 (2024)
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As used in this article, the term:
- (1) "Forensic medical examination" means an examination by a health care provider of a person who is a victim of a sexual assault. Such examination shall include a physical examination, documentation of biological and physical findings, and collection of physical evidence from the victim.
- (2) "Investigating law enforcement agency" means the law enforcement agency responsible for the investigation of the alleged sexual assault.
- (3) "Sexual assault" means rape, sodomy, aggravated sodomy, statutory rape, child molestation, aggravated child molestation, sexual assault against a person in custody, sexual assault against a person detained in a hospital or other institution, sexual assault by a practitioner of psychotherapy against a patient, incest, bestiality, sexual battery, and aggravated sexual battery as those terms and offenses are set forth and defined in Chapter 6 of Title 16.
Added by 2008 Ga. Laws 539,§ 3, eff. 5/12/2008.
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