{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-15-18-31","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 15-18-31","heading":"Referrals to defensive driving programs.","body":"When a prosecuting attorney determines that prosecution of a traffic offense, or municipal ordinance involving a traffic offense, is or is not warranted, and regardless of whether a court order is entered for such offense or a referral is made to a pretrial intervention, pretrial release, pretrial diversion program, or other similar pretrial program, a prosecuting attorney may condition any other action regarding such offense upon the satisfactory completion of a defensive driving course or defensive driving program approved by the Department of Driver Services but shall not be authorized to mandate the completion of any other driving program.","path":["TITLE 15 Courts","CHAPTER 18 Prosecuting Attorneys","Article 1 General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.15.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"dc0d299dd311a69d6b63fe08504983764281131b5bae4e062bc8035d0db2babc","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-15-18-30","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-15-18-40"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}