Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 12. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH AND MORALS · Article 2. GAMBLING AND RELATED OFFENSES · Part 1. GAMBLING

16-12-26. Advertising commercial gambling.

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

(a)
A person who knowingly prints, publishes, or advertises any lottery or other scheme for commercial gambling or who knowingly prints or publishes any lottery ticket, policy ticket, or other similar device designed to serve as evidence of participation in a lottery commits the offense of advertising commercial gambling.#
(b)
A person who commits the offense of advertising commercial gambling shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature.#

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, § 26-2705, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1; Ga. L. 1970, p. 236, § 8.

Cross references

Constitutional guarantee of free speech and press, U.S. Const., amend. 1, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. I, Para. V.

Law reviews

For note discussing organized crime in Georgia with respect to the application of state gambling laws, and suggesting proposals for combatting organized crime, see 7 Ga. St. B.J. 124 (1970).

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