{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-37-1-72","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 37-1-72","heading":"Issuance; grounds.","body":"(a) Inspection warrants shall be issued only by a judge of a court of record whose territorial jurisdiction encompasses the property to be inspected.\n(b) The issuing judge shall issue the warrant when the judge is satisfied that the following conditions are met:\n(1) 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\n(2) The issuing judge determines that the issuance of the warrant is authorized by this part.","path":["TITLE 37 Mental Health","CHAPTER 1 Governing and Regulation of Mental Health","Article 5 Enforcement Procedures","PART 1 Inspection Warrants"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.37.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":"47458dbc19583f57b9b01c747ebadbf09f9ade0e2d4740f1b0b8e43554736968","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-37-1-71","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-37-1-73"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}