Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 7. DAMAGE TO AND INTRUSION UPON PROPERTY · Article 2. CRIMINAL TRESPASS AND DAMAGE TO PROPERTY · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

16-7-26. Vandalism to a place of worship.

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

(a)
A person commits the offense of vandalism to a place of worship when he maliciously defaces or desecrates a church, synagogue, or other place of public religious worship.#
(b)
A person convicted of the offense of vandalism to a place of worship shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years.#

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. 1967, p. 457, § 1; Code 1933, § 26-1505, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

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