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title: O.C.G.A. § 16-11-44. Maintaining a disorderly house.
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# O.C.G.A. § 16-11-44. Maintaining a disorderly house.

A person who keeps and maintains, either by himself or others, a common, ill-governed, and disorderly house, to the encouragement of gaming, drinking, or other misbehavior, or to the common disturbance of the neighborhood or orderly citizens, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

## History

Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 815; Code 1863, § 4422; Ga. L. 1865-66, p. 233, § 2; Code 1868, § 4463; Code 1873, § 4537; Code 1882, § 4537; Penal Code 1895, § 392; Penal Code 1910, § 383; Code 1933, § 26-6103; Code 1933, § 26-2614, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

## Cross References

Right of civil action for public nuisance generally, § 41-1-3.