Procedure for Issuance of Inspection Warrants
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Law
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Georgia Code
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Social Services
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Department of Human Services
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Inspection Warrants for Residential Child Care Licensing
- Procedure for Issuance of Inspection Warrants
- Inspection warrants shall be issued only by a judge of a court of record whose territorial jurisdiction encompasses the property to be inspected.
- The issuing judge shall issue the warrant when the judge is satisfied that the following conditions are met:
- The one seeking the warrant must establish under oath or affirmation that the property to be inspected is to be inspected as a part of a legally authorized program of inspection which includes that property or that there is probable cause for believing that there is a condition, object, activity, or circumstance which legally justifies such an inspection of that property; and
- The issuing judge determines that the issuance of the warrant is authorized by this article.
(Code 1981, §49-2-22, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)
Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2009, "this article" was substituted for "this part" at the end of paragraph (b)(2).
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