Georgia Code — 38
Browse 373 sections in division 38 of the Georgia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 38-1-1. Marital, birth, divorce, or death records supplied free to veterans, dependents, Department of Veterans Affairs, or veterans' organizations; requirements; county to pay certain fees.
- § 38-1-2. Political subdivisions authorized to furnish quarters, utilities, and services to nationally recognized veterans' organizations.
- § 38-2-1. Short title.
- § 38-2-2. Definitions.
- § 38-2-3. Division and composition of militia; membership of unorganized militia.
- § 38-2-4. Persons exempted from militia duty; exception.
- § 38-2-5. Federal call up of militia; Governor's duties; utilization of unorganized militia; effect of unit's absence.
- § 38-2-6. Ordering organized militia into active state service; Governor's duties; local officials' duties; declaration of state of emergency; pay.
- § 38-2-6. 1. Request by Governor for members to report for active duty without first having declared an emergency.
- § 38-2-6. 2. National Guard Olympic support activities; reciprocal aid agreements or compacts with other states.
- § 38-2-7. Declaration of martial rule; area encompassed specifically designated.
- § 38-2-8. State reserve list; composition; active duty; length of service computations; applicable rules and regulations.
- § 38-2-9. State retired list; officers; enlisted persons; grade upon transfer to list; return to active duty; computation of time.
- § 38-2-10. Use of National Guard in drug law enforcement, provision of medical care in medically underserved areas, and for youth opportunity training programs.
- § 38-2-11. Implementation of federally approved counterdrug law enforcement plans.
- § 38-2-12. Use of National Guard as honor guards for veterans' funerals.
- § 38-2-20. Land force; Army National Guard.
- § 38-2-21. Air force; Air National Guard.
- § 38-2-22. Naval force; Naval Militia.
- § 38-2-23. State Defense Force.
- § 38-2-24. Organizational and training guidelines.
- § 38-2-25. Assemblies; annual training; special duty; active duty; declaration of emergency.
- § 38-2-26. Maintenance of armories and training facilities for militia units.
- § 38-2-27. Organization of militia units to conform to federal regulations; Governor's organizational powers; restrictions on disbanding units.
- § 38-2-28. Inactive National Guard; composition.
- § 38-2-29. Credit for active federal service.
- § 38-2-30. Resumption of membership in organized militia by National Guard personnel on release from active federal service.
- § 38-2-31. Purchase and issue of military property; emergency purchases; disposal of obsolete property.
- § 38-2-32. Responsibility for military property or funds; bond; pay deductions for lost or damaged equipment; action by Attorney General to recover damages.
- § 38-2-50. Creation or disbandment; organization and administration; commander.
- § 38-2-51. Authority of Governor.
- § 38-2-52. Detail of officers from retired and reserve lists and National Guard to State Defense Force.
- § 38-2-53. Detail of National Guard enlisted personnel to State Defense Force.
- § 38-2-54. Duties, privileges, and immunities.
- § 38-2-55. Use and operation of state property.
- § 38-2-70. Organizations from unorganized militia; applicable regulations; enlistment and volunteers.
- § 38-2-71. Registration of members of unorganized militia.
- § 38-2-72. Volunteers or draftees from unorganized militia serving in organized militia; draft of unorganized militia; compensation and duration of duty.
- § 38-2-73. Failure to appear for registration or draft; penalty.
- § 38-2-90. Service outside state; application of state military law to such service.
- § 38-2-91. Rendering assistance to another state's armed forces; Governor's request and recall; requesting assistance for this state.
- § 38-2-92. Fresh pursuit into or beyond state; surrender; surrender not waiver of extradition.
- § 38-2-93. Compacts for military aid authorized.
- § 38-2-110. Governor as militia commander in chief; issuance and effect of regulations.
- § 38-2-111. Personal aides-de-camp; appointment; commissions; length of service; duties.
- § 38-2-112. Naval advisor and aide-de-camp; requirements; length of service.
- § 38-2-130. Creation; executive head; definition.
- § 38-2-131. Military division authorized; executive head; definition.
- § 38-2-132. Administration of militia and Department of Defense; personnel; State Personnel Board.
- § 38-2-150. Adjutant general - Eligibility; appointment; compensation; bond.
- § 38-2-151. Adjutant general - Duties; records; seal; effect of seal on documentary evidence.
- § 38-2-152. Assistant adjutants general; eligibility; appointment; duties; compensation; tenure.
- § 38-2-153. State property and fiscal officer; appointment; duties; reports; bonds; compensation.
- § 38-2-170. Military appropriations; military fund created; use of military funds.
- § 38-2-171. Appropriations for units of organized militia; apportionment by adjutant general.
- § 38-2-172. Transfer of funds in emergency; funds used in event of invasion.
- § 38-2-173. Governor authorized to borrow money.
- § 38-2-174. Governor authorized to accept donations for organized militia.
- § 38-2-175. Governor authorized to obtain all federal appropriations, property, and equipment.
- § 38-2-176. Appropriations of money or property by counties or municipal corporations for local military units.
- § 38-2-177. Establishment of defense finance and accounting services facility; steps toward establishment; intergovernmental cooperation.
- § 38-2-190. Definitions.
- § 38-2-191. Construction, conversion, expansion, or alteration of armories and other facilities authorized when adjutant general deems necessary.
- § 38-2-192. Funding, equipping, and maintenance of facilities.
- § 38-2-193. Military division authorized to accept and procure federal funds; adjutant general authorized to utilize funds for projects; recipient of federal funds.
- § 38-2-194. Control of armories and other facilities; officer in charge.
- § 38-2-195. Use of armories and other facilities.
- § 38-2-210. Appointment and promotion of commissioned officers; filling of vacancies; grounds for removal.
- § 38-2-211. Qualifications.
- § 38-2-212. Assignment and transfer.
- § 38-2-213. Oath of office; by whom administered.
- § 38-2-214. Uniforms and equipment.
- § 38-2-215. Efficiency and medical examining boards - Consideration by; composition and appointment of.
- § 38-2-216. Efficiency and medical examining boards - Powers; procedure for appearances; discharge; transfer to reserve or retired list.
- § 38-2-217. Resignations; acts constituting resignation; types of discharge after resignation; resignation of officers who are accountable for military funds or property.
- § 38-2-218. Absence without leave.
- § 38-2-219. Warrant officers.
- § 38-2-230. Enlistment; qualifications; period of service; transfer; discharge; extensions of enlistments.
- § 38-2-231. Contract and oath of enlistment; penalty.
- § 38-2-232. Noncommissioned officers and petty officers; appointments; appointing officer; termination of appointment.
- § 38-2-233. Discharges; conditions; form.
- § 38-2-234. Absent without leave; dropping from rolls.
- § 38-2-250. Pay while on active service; special duty; travel expenses; minimum base pay.
- § 38-2-251. Pay, care, etc., when injured or disabled in service; pensions; medical examining boards; rehearings.
- § 38-2-252. Uniform allowance for officers.
- § 38-2-270. Relief from civil or criminal liability; immunity not exclusive security for attorney's fees; defense by Attorney General authorized.
- § 38-2-271. Change of venue for persons indicted or subjected to civil action for performance of military duty.
- § 38-2-272. Exemption from arrest on civil process; uniform and equipment exempt from levy and sale.
- § 38-2-273. Free passage through tollgates, tunnels, toll bridges, and ferries while under orders.
- § 38-2-274. Unlawful conversion of military property; penalty.
- § 38-2-275. Unlawful wearing of uniforms and devices indicating rank; penalty.
- § 38-2-276. Exemptions from jury duty and street tax.
- § 38-2-277. Unauthorized military bodies prohibited; exceptions; support by counties or cities prohibited; penalty for membership.
- § 38-2-278. Devises, bequests, and conveyances to military units as societies; officers as trustees; effect of disbandment of unit.
- § 38-2-279. Rights of public officers and employees absent on military duty as members of organized militia or reserve forces.
- § 38-2-280. Reemployment in private industry; various types of absences; injunction to compel; Attorney General's aid.
- § 38-2-281. Exclusion of uniformed military personnel from places of amusement; penalty.
- § 38-2-282. Officers and warrant officers to administer oaths and witness documents.
- § 38-2-283. Awards; individual; unit.
- § 38-2-284. Applicability of part to residents who are personnel of the National Guard of other states.
- § 38-2-300. Right of way for troops; exceptions; penalty.
- § 38-2-301. Closing places where firearms and ammunition sold, where disorder likely to occur; penalty for not obeying closing order.
- § 38-2-302. Control of streets in case of riot, rout, mob, tumult, or unlawful assembly; penalty for remaining on or failing to depart streets.
- § 38-2-303. Dispersion of mob; orders; where order unnecessary; penalty for failure to disperse.
- § 38-2-304. Duty of citizens to disperse when shot fired or missile thrown; penalty; felony upon failure to disperse after order.
- § 38-2-305. Authority of commanding officer to order vicinity of jail, building, or other place, off limits to unauthorized personnel; arrest; penalty.
- § 38-2-306. Prohibited conduct in area of military duty performance.
- § 38-2-307. Power of National Guard members to effect an arrest.
- § 38-2-1000. Short title.
- § 38-2-1001. Definitions.
- § 38-2-1002. Applicability; jurisdiction.
- § 38-2-1003. Discharge fraudulently obtained.
- § 38-2-1004. Calculating forfeiture punishments.
- § 38-2-1005. Territorial applicability of article.
- § 38-2-1006. State judge advocate; appointment; eligibility; staff judge advocate.
- § 38-2-1007. Apprehension.
- § 38-2-1008. Reserved.
- § 38-2-1009. Who may order the arrest or confinement of members.
- § 38-2-1010. Restraint of persons charged with offenses.
- § 38-2-1011. Confinement and imprisonment in civil jails.
- § 38-2-1012. No confinement with enemy prisoners.
- § 38-2-1013. Restriction on means of punishment.
- § 38-2-1014. Delivery of offenders to civil authorities.
- § 38-2-1015. Commanding officer's disciplinary punishment; regulations limiting; officers in charge; appeal; effect on more serious offenses.
- § 38-2-1016. Classification of courts-martial.
- § 38-2-1017. Jurisdiction of courts-martial; generally.
- § 38-2-1018. General courts-martial.
- § 38-2-1019. Special courts-martial.
- § 38-2-1020. Summary courts-martial.
- § 38-2-1021. Reserved.
- § 38-2-1022. Convening of general courts-martial.
- § 38-2-1023. Convening of special courts-martial.
- § 38-2-1024. Convening of summary courts-martial.
- § 38-2-1025. Eligibility to serve on courts-martial.
- § 38-2-1026. Military judge.
- § 38-2-1027. Trial counsel and assistants.
- § 38-2-1028. Appointment of court reporters and interpreters.
- § 38-2-1029. Absent and additional members; not less than six members required; disability of judge.
- § 38-2-1030. Charges and specification.
- § 38-2-1031. Compulsory self-incrimination prohibited.
- § 38-2-1032. Investigation; cross-examination; effect of failure to perform.
- § 38-2-1033. Forwarding of charges.
- § 38-2-1034. Advice of staff judge advocate and reference for trial; corrections.
- § 38-2-1035. Service of copy of charges; time period before trial.
- § 38-2-1036. Governor may prescribe rules and regulations.
- § 38-2-1037. Unlawfully influencing action of court.
- § 38-2-1038. Trial counsel.
- § 38-2-1039. Calling court into session without presence of members; purpose.
- § 38-2-1040. Granting continuance.
- § 38-2-1041. Challenges for cause; order of presentation; peremptory challenges.
- § 38-2-1042. Oaths.
- § 38-2-1043. Statute of limitations.
- § 38-2-1044. Double jeopardy.
- § 38-2-1045. Pleas of accused.
- § 38-2-1046. Opportunity to obtain witnesses and other evidence.
- § 38-2-1046. 1. Issuance of process and mandates; who may issue; execution.
- § 38-2-1047. Refusal to appear or testify; penalty.
- § 38-2-1048. Contempt; penalty.
- § 38-2-1049. Depositions.
- § 38-2-1050. Admissibility of records of courts of inquiry.
- § 38-2-1050. 1. Defense of mental disease or defect.
- § 38-2-1051. Voting, rulings, and charge.
- § 38-2-1052. Number of votes required for conviction.
- § 38-2-1053. Prompt announcement of findings and sentence.
- § 38-2-1054. Trial record; contents; authentication; accused entitled to copy.
- § 38-2-1055. Cruel and unusual punishments prohibited.
- § 38-2-1056. Maximum sentencing limits.
- § 38-2-1057. Effective date of sentences.
- § 38-2-1057. 1. Deferment of sentence.
- § 38-2-1058. Execution of confinement; discipline while in civil jails; hard labor; civil confinement according to law.
- § 38-2-1058. 1. Reduction of pay grade.
- § 38-2-1058. 2. Forfeiture of pay and allowances.
- § 38-2-1059. Effect of error of law on appeal; material prejudice; lesser included offense.
- § 38-2-1060. Report of findings and sentence; submission of matters for consideration to convening authority; record of trial; modification of findings and sentence; recommendation of staff judge advocate; proceeding in revision; rehearing.
- § 38-2-1061. Withdrawal of appeal.
- § 38-2-1062. State may appeal certain rulings.
- § 38-2-1063. Rehearings; grounds; members of court; effect on sentence.
- § 38-2-1064. Guilty findings reviewed by state judge advocate.
- § 38-2-1065. Disposition of trial records.
- § 38-2-1066. Reserved.
- § 38-2-1067. Court-martial review panel; members; rules and regulations.
- § 38-2-1070. Appellate government counsel.
- § 38-2-1071. Execution of sentence extending to dismissal or dishonorable or bad conduct discharge.
- § 38-2-1072. Vacation of suspension of sentence; hearing; legal representation by military counsel; record of hearing.
- § 38-2-1073. Petition for new trial; time period; grounds.
- § 38-2-1074. Remission or suspension of sentence; modification of type of discharge by Governor.
- § 38-2-1075. Restoration of rights, privileges, and property, in event of remission; administrative discharge; reinstatement.
- § 38-2-1076. Finality of proceedings, findings, and sentences; binding effect.
- § 38-2-1076. 1. Court-martial sentence requires taking leave.
- § 38-2-1077. Principals.
- § 38-2-1078. Accessory after the fact.
- § 38-2-1079. Conviction of lesser included offense.
- § 38-2-1080. Attempts.
- § 38-2-1081. Conspiracy.
- § 38-2-1082. Solicitation of desertion, mutiny, misbehavior before the enemy, or sedition.
- § 38-2-1083. Fraudulent enlistment, appointment, or separation.
- § 38-2-1084. Unlawful enlistment, appointment, or separation.
- § 38-2-1085. Desertion.
- § 38-2-1086. Absence without leave.
- § 38-2-1087. Missing movement of ship, aircraft, or unit.
- § 38-2-1088. Contempt toward officials.
- § 38-2-1089. Disrespect toward a superior officer.
- § 38-2-1090. Assaulting or willfully disobeying officer.
- § 38-2-1091. Insubordination toward warrant or noncommissioned officer.
- § 38-2-1092. Failure to obey order or regulation.
- § 38-2-1093. Cruelty and maltreatment of others under one's command.
- § 38-2-1094. Mutiny and sedition.
- § 38-2-1095. Resistance, breach of arrest, and escape.
- § 38-2-1096. Assistance in a prisoner's escape.
- § 38-2-1097. Unlawful detention.
- § 38-2-1098. Noncompliance with procedural rules; unnecessary delay.
- § 38-2-1099. Misbehavior before the enemy.
- § 38-2-1100. Compelling surrender.
- § 38-2-1101. Disclosure or improper use of countersign or parole.
- § 38-2-1102. Forcing a safeguard.
- § 38-2-1103. Captured or abandoned property; trading and looting prohibited.
- § 38-2-1104. Aiding the enemy.
- § 38-2-1105. Misconduct as prisoner of war.
- § 38-2-1106. Reserved.
- § 38-2-1107. Signing false official document; making false official statement.
- § 38-2-1108. Military property; loss, damage, destruction, or wrongful disposition.
- § 38-2-1109. Property other than military property; waste, spoilage, or destruction.
- § 38-2-1110. Willful or negligent hazarding of vessel.
- § 38-2-1111. Driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
- § 38-2-1112. Under the influence of alcohol while on duty.
- § 38-2-1112. 1. Use, possession, manufacture, distribution, or importation of certain controlled substances; exceptions.
- § 38-2-1113. Drunk or sleeping while standing post.
- § 38-2-1114. Reserved.
- § 38-2-1115. Malingering; feigning illness; self-infliction of injury.
- § 38-2-1116. Riot or breach of peace.
- § 38-2-1117. Provoking words or gestures.
- § 38-2-1131. Perjury.
- § 38-2-1132. Fraudulent claims against the government.
- § 38-2-1133. Conduct unbecoming an officer.
- § 38-2-1134. General provision.
- § 38-2-1135. Courts of inquiry; composition; parties; report.
- § 38-2-1136. Authority to administer oaths; limitations; effect of signature.
- § 38-2-1136. 1. Marshals; duties, powers, immunities.
- § 38-2-1137. Explanation of Code sections to enlisted personnel.
- § 38-2-1138. Complaints of wrongs by commanding officers.
- § 38-2-1138. 1. State administrative letter of reprimand.
- § 38-2-1139. Redress of injuries to private property; complaint; investigating board; assessment.
- § 38-2-1140. Delegation of authority by Governor.
- § 38-2-1141. Fees and authorized travel expenses of witnesses, victims, court reporters, and interpreters.
- § 38-2-1142. Fines for contempt; methods of collection and payment.
- § 38-2-1143. Construction with the federal Uniform Code of Military Justice.
- § 38-2-1144. Immunity.
- § 38-2-1145. Severability.
- § 38-3-1. Short title.
- § 38-3-2. Policy and purpose.
- § 38-3-3. Definitions.
- § 38-3-4. Enforcement.
- § 38-3-5. Injunction; who may obtain; remedy at law irrelevant.
- § 38-3-6. Liberality of construction.
- § 38-3-7. Penalty for violation.
- § 38-3-20. Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency created; director; staff; offices; director's duties; disaster coordinator.
- § 38-3-21. Director authorized to make rules and regulations.
- § 38-3-22. Governor's emergency management powers and duties.
- § 38-3-22. 1. Safety plan addressing threat of terrorism required of state agencies or authorities; exemptions; training and technical assistance; confidentiality of plans and related documentation.
- § 38-3-22. 2. Establishment of Airport Antiterrorism Training Committee; annual training.
- § 38-3-23. Investigations and surveys; subpoena power; cooperation.
- § 38-3-24. Traffic control; plans, regulations, and coordination.
- § 38-3-25. Lease or loan of state property for national or local purposes; transfer of state personnel; local authorities empowered to utilize property.
- § 38-3-26. Mobile support units; organization; rights, powers, duties, privileges, immunities, and compensation, of employees; reimbursement to localities and out-of-state units; service out of state.
- § 38-3-27. Local organizations for emergency management; creation; structure; powers; directors; appointment, qualifications, and compensation; state to provide financial assistance; entitlement for funding.
- § 38-3-28. Authority of political subdivisions; filing of orders, rules, and regulations; effect; consideration of federal emergency management regulations.
- § 38-3-29. Local mutual aid arrangements; out-of-state arrangements; conformity with state plan.
- § 38-3-30. Aid rendered by local employees to other political subdivisions; reimbursement of personnel and equipment expenses by aided locality; procedure.
- § 38-3-31. Authority of state and localities to accept gifts, grants, or loans, from federal or private sources.
- § 38-3-32. Sovereign immunity granted those who allow premises to be used for emergency management purposes; when.
- § 38-3-33. Immunity granted those who provide equipment in emergencies.
- § 38-3-34. Emergency management personnel; qualifications; oath; who may administer.
- § 38-3-35. (See Editor's notes.) Immunity of state and political subdivisions; of emergency management workers.
- § 38-3-36. Director to license nongovernmental rescue organizations; exception; registration of public and private search and rescue dog teams.
- § 38-3-37. Prohibited actions by government official or employee during declared state of emergency.
- § 38-3-38. Entrance upon private property by Department of Corrections personnel during state of emergency or disaster.
- § 38-3-40. Definitions.
- § 38-3-41. Creation; membership; allowances.
- § 38-3-42. Board's duty to advise Governor; development of state-wide homeland security strategy; coordination with federal strategic guidance on homeland security; rules and regulations.
- § 38-3-50. Emergency interim successors to various officials; necessity of declared emergency.
- § 38-3-51. Emergency powers of Governor; termination of emergency; limitations in energy emergency; immunity.
- § 38-3-52. Emergency locations - State government; proclamation; effect of official acts.
- § 38-3-53. Emergency locations - Meeting of General Assembly; call; suspension of constitutional rules.
- § 38-3-54. Emergency locations - Local government; who may call meeting; effect of acts.
- § 38-3-55. Emergency locations - When authorized; proclamation.
- § 38-3-56. Registration of businesses during emergency.
- § 38-3-57. Establishment of standardized, verifiable, performance based unified incident command system; utilization; training; implementation; funding; first informer broadcasters.
- § 38-3-58. "Essentials" defined; system to facilitate transport and distribution; certification.
- § 38-3-60. Definitions.
- § 38-3-61. Declaration of judicial emergency; duration of judicial emergency declaration; designation of alternative facility in lieu of court.
- § 38-3-62. Suspension or tolling of deadlines and time schedules in event of judicial emergency.
- § 38-3-63. Notification to other judicial officials and public.
- § 38-3-64. Appeal rights of adversely affected parties; cost of appeal borne by state.
- § 38-3-70. Short title.
- § 38-3-80. Short title.
- § 38-3-81. Enactment; text.
- § 38-3-90. Short title.
- § 38-3-91. Definitions.
- § 38-3-92. Legislative finding.
- § 38-3-93. Authorization for certain employees of state agencies to be granted leave from work with pay in order to participate in specialized disaster relief services.