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Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 9. FORGERY AND FRAUDULENT PRACTICES · Article 3. ILLEGAL USE OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTION CARDS

16-9-36. Rebuttable presumption of criminal receipt of goods and services fraudulently obtained.

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

  1. A person who obtains at a discount price a ticket issued by an airline, railroad, steamship, or other transportation company from other than an authorized agent of such company, which ticket was acquired in violation of subsection (a) of Code Section 16-9-33 without reasonable inquiry to ascertain that the person from whom it was obtained had a legal right to possess it shall be rebuttably presumed to know that such ticket was acquired under circumstances constituting a violation of subsection (a) of Code Section 16-9-33 if the ticket shows on its face that it was issued through the use of a financial transaction card or that it is otherwise nonrefundable.

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, § 26-1705.7, enacted by Ga. L. 1969, p. 128, § 1; Code 1933, § 26-1705.6, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1083, § 1.

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

Text read from t16-ch7-11-(v14a)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V14A, 2018 edition, page 524; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 5985d65f23ef.