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Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 15A. COMPENSATION FOR CRIMINALLY INFLICTED PROPERTY DAMAGE

17-15A-3. Legislative findings.

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

  1. The General Assembly finds and declares that:

  2. (1)

    Criminal street gang activity is a serious and continuing public safety concern;#

  3. (2)

    Criminal trespass and criminal damage to property in the second degree caused by graffiti being placed unlawfully upon private property are crimes frequently associated with criminal street gang activity; and#

  4. (3)

    It is in the public interest, not only in the pursuit of justice but also as a means of combating such criminal street gang activity and of contributing to the general public welfare by improving the esthetics of public views, to compensate as provided in this chapter those private property owners who are the innocent victims of such criminal trespass or criminal damage to property in the second degree by using inmate labor to remove or obliterate graffiti unlawfully placed on private properties when such graffiti is visible from public roads or other public property.#

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 1981, § 17-15A-3, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 252, § 1.

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Text read from t17-(v15)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V15, 2020 edition, page 1435; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 0b0d45f9c609.