Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 14. RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS

16-14-1. Short title.

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

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act.”

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, § 26-3401, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 405, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 693, § 2-25/HB 233.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2015, p. 693, § 4-1/HB 233, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2015, and shall apply to seizures of property for forfeiture that occur on or after that date. Any such seizure that occurs before July 1, 2015, shall be governed by the statute in effect at the time of such seizure.”

Cross references

Venue for the offense of money laundering, § 7-1-917.

Law reviews

For survey article on trial practice and procedure, see 59 Mercer L. Rev. 423 (2007). For survey article on tort law, see 60 Mercer L. Rev. 375 (2008). For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2015).

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