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title: O.C.G.A. § 10-1-493. Penalty for failing to register.
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# O.C.G.A. § 10-1-493. Penalty for failing to register.

Any person, firm, partnership, or corporation carrying on any trade or business subject to registration under Code Section 10-1-490 without filing such registration as required by Code Section 10-1-490 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor but shall suffer no other or further penalty or forfeiture on account of any such failure to register, except costs as provided in Code Section 10-1-491.

## History

Ga. L. 1929, p. 233, § 5; Code 1933, § 106-9906; Ga. L. 1937, p. 804, § 3.