---
title: O.C.G.A. § 12-5-296. Criminal violation.
collection: code
id: 12-5-296
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 12-5-296 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/12-5-296
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/12-5-296.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/12-5-296/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t12-(v10)-2021-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=67595359_0#page=574
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/12-5.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/12-5-295.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/12-5-297.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES / WATER RESOURCES / COASTAL WATERS, BEACHES, AND SAND DUNES / COASTAL MARSHLANDS
---

# O.C.G.A. § 12-5-296. Criminal violation.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this part shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

## History

Ga. L. 1970, p. 939, § 10; Code 1981, § 12-5-293; Code 1981, § 12-5-296, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1992, p. 2294, § 1.