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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

16-9-53. Damaging, destroying, or secreting property to defraud another.

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

  1. (a)

    A person commits the offense of damaging, destroying, or secreting property to defraud another person when he knowingly and with intent to defraud another person damages, destroys, or secretes any property of whatever class or character, whether the property of himself or of another person.#

  2. (b)

    A person convicted of the offense of damaging, destroying, or secreting property to defraud another person 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

Code 1933, § 26-1504, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 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 530; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 5985d65f23ef.