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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 6. SEXUAL OFFENSES

16-6-17. Giving massages in place used for lewdness, prostitution, assignation, or masturbation for hire.

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

  1. (a)

    It shall be unlawful for any masseur or masseuse to massage any person in any building, structure, or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, prostitution, or masturbation for hire.#

  2. (b)

    As used in this Code section, the term:#

    1. (1)

      ‘‘Masseur’’ means a male who practices massage or physiotherapy, or both.#

    2. (2)

      ‘‘Masseuse’’ means a female who practices massage or physiotherapy, or both.#

  3. (c)

    Any person who violates this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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

Ga. L. 1975, p. 402, § 3.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t16-ch1-6-(v14)-2019-pdf.pdf, Volume V14, 2019 edition, page 1254; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7e331f0ca7d3.