Georgia Code, Title 42, Chapter 9, Article 2 - Grants of Pardons, Paroles, and Other Relief
- § 42-9-39 - Restrictions on Relief for Person Serving a Second Life Sentence
(a) The provisions of this Code section shall be binding upon the board in granting pardons and paroles, notwithstanding any other provisions of this...
- § 42-9-40 - Parole Guidelines System
(a) The board shall adopt, implement, and maintain a parole guidelines system for determining parole action. The guidelines system shall be used in determining...
- § 42-9-41 - Duty of Board to Obtain and Place in Records Information Respecting Persons Subject to Relief or Placed on Probation; Investigations; Rules
(a) It shall be the duty of the board to obtain and place in its permanent records information as complete as may be practicable...
- § 42-9-42 - Procedure for Granting Relief From Sentence; Conditions and Prerequisites; Public Access to Information; Violation of Parole
(a) No person shall be granted clemency, pardon, parole, or other relief from sentence except by a majority vote of the board. A majority...
- § 42-9-42.1 - Use of Hiv Test Results in Granting Relief From Sentence; Conditions
(a) Any term used in this Code section and defined in Code Section 31-22-9.1 shall have the meaning provided for such term in Code...
- § 42-9-43 - Information to Be Considered by Board Generally; Conduct of Investigation and Examination; Determination As to Grant of Relief
(a) The board, in considering any case within its power, shall cause to be brought before it all pertinent information on the person in...
- § 42-9-43.1 - Citizenship Status of Prisoner; Deportation
(a) In determining whether to grant parole the board shall be authorized to make inquiry into whether the prisoner is lawfully present in the...
- § 42-9-44 - Terms and Conditions of Parole; Adoption of General and Special Rules; Violation of Parole; Certain Parolees to Obtain High School Diploma or General Educational Development (Ged) Diploma
(a) The board, upon placing a person on parole, shall specify in writing the terms and conditions thereof. A certified copy of the conditions...
- § 42-9-44.1 - And 42-9-44.2
Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2006, p. 379, ยง 28/HB 1059, effective July 1, 2006.
- § 42-9-44.3 - Definitions; Required Community Service; Liability; Work During Periods of Natural Disaster
(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Agency employee" means an employee or agent of a community service agency, whether the...
- § 42-9-45 - General Rule-Making Power
(a) The board may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this chapter, touching all matters dealt with in this chapter, including,...
- § 42-9-46 - Cases in Which Inmate Has Failed to Serve Time Required for Automatic Initial Consideration
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, if the board is to consider any case in which an inmate has failed to...
- § 42-9-47 - Notification of Decision to Parole Inmate
Within 72 hours after the board reaches a final decision to parole an inmate, the district attorney, the presiding judge, the sheriff of each...
- § 42-9-48 - Arrest of Parolee or Conditional Release Violator
(a) If any member of the board shall have reasonable ground to believe that any parolee or conditional releasee has lapsed into criminal ways...
- § 42-9-49 - Reimbursement of Counties for Incarceration of Persons Arrested in Accordance With Code Section 42-9-48
After proper documentation is received from the county, the board shall reimburse the county, pursuant to rules and regulations adopted by the board and...
- § 42-9-50 - Preliminary Hearing for Parole or Conditional Release Violator; Ratification or Overruling of Decision of Hearing Officer by Board; Disposition of Violator
(a) Whenever a parolee or conditional releasee is arrested on a warrant issued by a member of the board for an alleged violation of...
- § 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
(a) A parolee who has allegedly violated the terms of his parole or conditional release shall, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, have...
- § 42-9-52 - Discharge From Parole; Earned-Time Allowance; Granting of Pardons, Commutations, and Remissions of Fines, Forfeitures, or Penalties
No person who has been placed on parole shall be discharged therefrom by the board prior to the expiration of the term for which...
- § 42-9-53 - Preservation of Documents; Classification of Information and Documents; Divulgence of Confidential State Secrets; Conduct of Hearings
(a) Subject to other laws, the board shall preserve on file all documents on which it has acted in the granting of pardons, paroles,...
- § 42-9-54 - Effect of Pardons Upon Civil and Political Disabilities; Conditional Pardons Prohibited
(a) All pardons shall relieve those pardoned from civil and political disabilities imposed because of their convictions.(b) No conditional pardons shall be issued.
- § 42-9-55 - Cooperation by Jails or Correctional Institutions With Board
The superintendent, warden, or jailer of any jail or state or county correctional institution in which persons convicted of a crime may be confined...
- § 42-9-56 - Restriction on Governor's Powers
The Governor shall have no authority or power whatever over the granting of pardons or paroles.
- § 42-9-57 - Effect of Chapter on Probation Power of Courts; Cooperation by Board With the Department
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as repealing any power given to any court of this state to place offenders on probation...
- § 42-9-58 - Effect of Chapter on Other Laws Respecting Parole and Probation
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to change or modify the laws respecting parole and probation as administered by the juvenile courts of...
- § 42-9-59 - Effect of Chapter on Previously Granted Pardons, Paroles, and Probations
This chapter shall not affect pardons, paroles, or probations acted upon prior to February 5, 1943.
- § 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
(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Capacity" shall mean the actual bed space in the prison system of the State...
Last modified: October 14, 2016