Georgia § 35-3-40 - Construction of article.
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§ 35-3-40. Construction of article.
In the event of conflict, this article shall to the extent of the conflict supersede all existing statutes which regulate, control, or otherwise relate, directly or by implication, to the collection, storage, and dissemination or usage of fingerprint identification, offender criminal history, uniform crime reporting, and criminal justice activity data records or any existing statutes which relate directly or by implication to any other provisions of this article. Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this Code section, this article shall not be understood to alter, amend, or supersede the statutes and rules of law governing the collection, storage, dissemination, or usage of records concerning individual juvenile offenders in which they are individually identified by name or by other means. (Ga. L. 1973, p. 1301, § 9.)
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