Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 9. FORGERY AND FRAUDULENT PRACTICES · Article 4. FRAUD AND RELATED OFFENSES

16-9-50. Deceptive business practices.

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

(a)
A person commits the offense of using a deceptive business practice when in the regular course of business he knowingly:#
1. (1)
  Uses or possesses for use a false weight or measure or any other device for falsely determining or recording any quality or quantity;#
2. (2)
  Sells, offers, or exposes for sale or delivers less than the represented quality or quantity of any commodity; or#
3. (3)
  Takes or attempts to take more than the represented quantity of any commodity when as buyer he furnishes the weight or measure.#
(b)
Any person who commits the offense of using a deceptive business practice shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.#

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, § 26-1706, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

Cross references

Deceptive or unfair trade practices or consumer transactions, § 10-1-370 et seq. Misrepresentation of quantity of commodities in commercial transactions, and misrepresentation or deception in pricing by weight, measure, or count, §§ 10-2-7, 10-2-8.

Law reviews

For article discussing available remedies in this state for deceptive trade practices, in light of the model Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law proposed in Georgia in 1973, see 10 Ga. St. B.J. 281 (1973). For article explaining the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act, proposed in Georgia in 1973, see 10 Ga. St. B.J. 409 (1974). For note discussing criminal penalty for deceptive business practices, see 25 Emory L.J. 445 (1976).

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