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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 3. PARKS, HISTORIC AREAS, MEMORIALS, AND RECREATION · Article 9. PROTECTION OF ARCHEOLOGICAL, ABORIGINAL, PREHISTORIC, AND HISTORIC SITES

12-3-622. Buying, selling, trading, importing, or exporting American Indian burial, sacred, or cultural objects.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    After December 1, 1992, it shall be unlawful for any person to buy, sell, trade, import, or export for purposes of buying, selling, or trading for profit any American Indian burial object, sacred object, or object of cultural patrimony, with knowledge that the object is an American Indian burial or sacred object or an object of cultural patrimony.#

  2. (b)

    Any person who violates the provisions of subsection (a) of this Code section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, may be punished by a fine not to exceed $500.00 for each burial object, sacred object, or object of cultural patrimony involved in such violation.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 12-3-622, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 1790, § 2.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1992, a comma was inserted following ‘‘selling’’ in subsection (a).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t12-(v10)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V10, 2021 edition, pages 296 to 297; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 a1ca11f804f2.