2025 Code of Georgia
Title 38 - Military, Emergency Management, and Veterans Affairs (Chs. 1 — 4)
Chapter 2 - Military Affairs (Arts. 1 — 5)
Article 5 - Code of Military Justice (Pts. 1 — 11)

Annotations

Notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-3, in 2015, the amendment to Code Section 38-2-464 by Ga. L. 2015, p. 693, § 3-32/HB 233, was treated as impliedly repealed and superseded by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98, due to irreconcilable conflict. See County of Butts v. Strahan, 151 Ga. 417 (1921); Keener v. McDougall, 232 Ga. 273 (1974).

Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98, effective July 1, 2015, repealed the Code sections formerly codified at this article and enacted the current article. The former article consisted of Code Sections 38-2-320 through 38-2-326, 38-2-340 through 38-2-347, 38-2-360, 38-2-370 through 38-2-376, 38-2-390 through 38-2-397, 38-2-410 through 38-2-415, 38-2-430 through 38-2-449, 38-2-460 through 38-2-464, 38-2-480 through 38-2-493, 38-2-510 through 38-2-553, and 38-2-570 through 38-2-577, relating to the Georgia Code of Military Justice, and was based on Ga. L. 1916, p. 158, § 3; Code 1933, §§ 86-1201—86-1204; Ga. L. 1951, p. 311, § 23; Ga. L. 1955, p. 10, §§ 60.1—60.116, 61.1—61.12; Ga. L. 1959, p. 114, §§ 2-6; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 38; Ga. L. 1985, p. 356, §§ 9, 10; Ga. L. 1996, p. 740, § 3.

Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 4/HB 98, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2015, and shall apply to offenses which occur on or after that date. Any offense occurring before July 1, 2015, shall be governed by the statutes in effect at the time of such offense. The enactment of this Act shall not affect any prosecutions for acts occurring before July 1, 2015, and shall not act as an abatement of any such prosecutions.”

Research References & Practice Aids

57 C. J. S., Military Justice, § 1 et seq.

53A Am. Jur. 2d, Military and Civil Defense, § 1 et seq.

O. C. G. A. Title 38

O. C. G. A. Title 38, Ch. 2