Georgia § 38-2-1007 - Apprehension.

Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 38-2-1007 — Apprehension., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 38-2-1007. Apprehension.

Any person authorized by this article or Chapter 47 of Title 10 of the United States Code, or by regulations issued under either, to take persons into custody subject to this article, any marshal of a court-martial appointed pursuant to the provisions of this article, and any peace officer or civil officer having authority to take offenders into custody under the laws of the United States or of another state, may do so upon probable cause that an offense has been committed and that the person taken into custody committed it. Commissioned officers, warrant officers, petty officers, and noncommissioned officers shall have authority to quell quarrels, frays, and disorders among persons subject to this article and to take persons into custody subject to this article who take part therein. If an offender is taken into custody outside this state, the offender's return to this state shall be in accordance with normal extradition procedures or by reciprocal agreement. No person authorized by this article to take persons into custody subject to this article, or the place where such offender is confined, restrained, held, or otherwise housed, shall require payment of any fee or charge for so receiving, apprehending, confining, restraining, holding, or otherwise housing a person except as otherwise provided by law. (Code 1981, § 38-2-1007 , enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98.) U.S. Code. - For similar provision in Uniform Code of Military Justice, see 10 U.S.C. § 807.

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