Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 11. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND SAFETY · Article 4. DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTALITIES AND PRACTICES · Part 3. CARRYING AND POSSESSION OF FIREARMS

16-11-136. Restrictions on possession, manufacture, sale, or transfer of knives.

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(a)
As used in this Code section, the term:#
1. (1)
  ‘‘Courthouse’’ shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 16-11-127.#
2. (2)
  ‘‘Government building’’ shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 16-11-127.#
3. (3)
  ‘‘Knife’’ means any cutting instrument with a blade and shall include, without limitation, a knife as such term is defined in Code Section 16-11-125.1.#
(b)
Except for restrictions in courthouses and government buildings, no county, municipality, or consolidated government shall, by rule or ordinance, constrain the possession, manufacture, sale, or transfer of a knife more restrictively than the provisions of this part.#

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, § 16-11-136, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1141, § 1/SB 432.

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