Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 10. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION · Article 1. ABUSE OF GOVERNMENTAL OFFICE

16-10-7. False acknowledgments, certificates, or statements of appearance or oath by officer authorized to do same.

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

Any officer authorized to administer oaths or to take and certify acknowledgments who knowingly makes a false acknowledgment, certificate, or statement concerning the appearance before him or the taking of an oath or affirmation by any person is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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.

Ga. L. 1959, p. 34, § 14; Code 1933, § 26-2310, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

Notaries public generally, T. 45, C. 17.

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