History. Code 1981, § 7-5-5 , enacted by Ga. L. 1987, p. 268, § 1; Ga. L. 2020, p. 493, § 7/SB 429.
The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, made a punctuation change in paragraph (b)(2).