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2023 CODE OF GEORGIA
Title 24 - EVIDENCE (§§ 24-1-1 — 24-99-3)
Chapter 13 - SECURING ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES AND PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION OF EVIDENCE (§§ 24-13-1 — 24-13-154)
Article 4 - UNIFORM ACT TO SECURE THE ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES FROM WITHOUT THE STATE (§§ 24-13-90 — 24-13-97)
Section 24-13-96 - Exemption of witnesses from arrest and service of process
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GA Code § 24-13-96 (2023)
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- (a) If a person comes into this state in obedience to a summons directing him or her to attend and testify in this state, such person shall not, while in this state pursuant to such summons, be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before such person's entrance into this state under the summons.
- (b) If a person passes through this state while going to another state in obedience to a summons to attend and testify in that state or while returning therefrom, he or she shall not while so passing through this state be subject to arrest or the service of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before such person's entrance into this state under the summons.
Amended by 2023 Ga. Laws 353,§ 3, eff. 7/1/2023.
Added by 2011 Ga. Laws 52,§ 2, eff. 1/1/2013.
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