Georgia Code
Part 1 - Schedules, Offenses, and Penalties
§ 16-13-32. Transactions in Drug Related Objects; Civil Forfeiture; Penalties

This term shall not include a hypodermic needle or syringe.
History. Code 1933, § 79A-811.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 2237, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1288, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 748, § 13; Ga. L. 2004, p. 488, § 2; Ga. L. 2015, p. 693, § 2-19/HB 233; Ga. L. 2019, p. 40, § 1/HB 217; Ga. L. 2022, p. 663, § 4/SB 164.
The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, substituted “Except as otherwise authorized in subsection (c) of this Code section, it” for “It” at the beginning of subsection (b); designated the existing provisions of subsection (c) as paragraph (c)(1); in paragraph (c)(1), in the first sentence, deleted “or” following “Code Section 26-4-5” and inserted “or a person employed by or acting as an agent of a registered syringe services program,” in the middle; and added paragraphs (c)(2) through (c)(4).
The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, deleted “inject,” preceding “ingest,” in subparagraph (a)(1)(A), and added the last sentence in paragraph (a)(1); and inserted “drug related” in the first sentence in subsection (e).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2015, p. 693, § 4-1/HB 233, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2015, and shall apply to seizures of property for forfeiture that occur on or after that date. Any such seizure that occurs before July 1, 2015, shall be governed by the statute in effect at the time of such seizure.”
Law reviews.
For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2015).
For article on the 2019 amendment of this Code section, see 36 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 27 (2019).

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