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2025 Code of Georgia
Title 42 - Penal Institutions (Chs. 1 — 13)
Chapter 9 - Pardons and Paroles (Arts. 1 — 5)
Article 2 - Grants of Pardons, Paroles, and Other Relief (§§ 42-9-39 — 42-9-61)
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Cross references.Authority of judge in fixing sentence to specify that offender may be considered for parole prior to completion of any minimum requirement otherwise imposed by law relating to completion of service of specified time before parole eligibility, § 17-10-1.
Restrictions on granting of parole to person convicted of fourth felony offense, § 17-10-7.
Administrative rules and regulations.Pardons and paroles, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, State Board of Pardons and Paroles, Chapters 475-1 through 475-3.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 42
O. C. G. A. Title 42, Ch. 9
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O.C.G.A. Title 42, Ch. 9, Art. 2
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- § 42-9-39. Restrictions on relief for person serving a second life sentence
- § 42-9-40. Parole guidelines system
- § 42-9-41. Duty of board to obtain and place in records information respecting persons subject to relief or placed on probation; investigations; rules
- § 42-9-42. Procedure for granting relief from sentence; conditions and prerequisites; public access to information; violation of parole
- § 42-9-42.1. Use of HIV test results in granting relief from sentence; conditions
- § 42-9-43. Information to be considered by board generally; conduct of investigation and examination; determination as to grant of relief
- § 42-9-43.1. Citizenship status of prisoner; deportation
- § 42-9-44. Terms and conditions of parole; adoption of general and special rules; violation of parole; certain parolees or releasees to obtain high school diploma or state approved high school equivalency (HSE) diploma
- §§ 42-9-44.1 and 42-9-44.2. [Reserved]
- § 42-9-44.3. Definitions; required community service; liability; work during periods of natural disaster
- § 42-9-45. General rule-making power
- § 42-9-46. Cases in which inmate has failed to serve time required for automatic initial consideration; objections
- § 42-9-47. Notification of decision to parole inmate
- § 42-9-48. Arrest of parolee or conditional release violator
- § 42-9-49. Reimbursement of counties for incarceration of persons arrested in accordance with Code Section 42-9-48
- § 42-9-50. Preliminary hearing for parole or conditional release violator; ratification or overruling of decision of hearing officer by board; disposition of violator
- § 42-9-51. Final hearing for parole or conditional release violator; order and statement as to disposition of violator; revocations without hearing and temporary revocations
- § 42-9-52. Discharge from parole; earned-time allowance; granting of pardons, commutations, and remissions of fines, forfeitures, or penalties
- § 42-9-53. Preservation of documents; classification of information and documents; divulgence of confidential state secrets; conduct of hearings
- § 42-9-54. Effect of pardons upon civil and political disabilities; conditional pardons prohibited
- § 42-9-55. Cooperation by jails or correctional institutions with board
- § 42-9-56. Restriction on Governor’s powers
- § 42-9-57. Effect of chapter on probation power of courts; cooperation by board with the department
- § 42-9-58. Effect of chapter on other laws respecting parole and probation
- § 42-9-59. Effect of chapter on previously granted pardons, paroles, and probations
- § 42-9-60. Overcrowding of prison system as creating state of emergency; paroling inmates to reduce prison system population to capacity; annual report of inmates paroled
- § 42-9-61. Request for report; disclosure’s impact on confidentiality
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