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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

16-1-2. Purposes of title.

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

  1. The general purposes of this title are:

  2. (1)

    To forbid and prevent conduct which unjustifiably and inexcusably causes or threatens substantial harm to individual or public interests;#

  3. (2)

    To give fair warning of the nature of the conduct forbidden and the sentence authorized upon conviction;#

  4. (3)

    To define that which constitutes each crime; and#

  5. (4)

    To prescribe penalties which are proportionate to the seriousness of crimes and which permit recognition of differences in rehabilitation possibilities among individual criminals.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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 1933, § 26-102, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

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

Text read from t16-ch1-6-(v14)-2019-pdf.pdf, Volume V14, 2019 edition, pages 4 to 5; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7e331f0ca7d3.