The ordering authority shall retain jurisdiction to modify a restitution order at any time before the expiration of the relief ordered.
(Code 1933, § 27-3012, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1382, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 88, § 5/HB 172.)
Editor's notes.- Ga. L. 2005, p. 88, § 1/HB 172, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "This Act shall be known and may be cited as the 'Crime Victims Restitution Act of 2005.'"
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Modification may be ordered at any time.
- Trial court erred in dismissing a defendant's motion to modify restitution until the time came for the defendant to pay. Under O.C.G.A. § 17-14-12, the ordering authority, in this case, the trial court pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 17-14-2, retained jurisdiction to modify the restitution order at any time before the expiration of the relief ordered. Wright v. State, 302 Ga. App. 136, 690 S.E.2d 259 (2010).
Cited in Patterson v. State, 289 Ga. App. 663, 658 S.E.2d 210 (2008).