---
title: O.C.G.A. § 17-6-52. Soliciting business or loitering around jails or courts to solicit business; giving of advice by law enforcement officers as to services of professional bondsmen.
collection: code
id: 17-6-52
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 17-6-52 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-6-52
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-6-52.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-6-52/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t17-(v15)-2020-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=8c04ccfe_0#page=410
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-6.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-6-51.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/17-6-53.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE / BONDS AND RECOGNIZANCES / SURETIES / PROFESSIONAL BONDSMEN
---

# O.C.G.A. § 17-6-52. Soliciting business or loitering around jails or courts to solicit business; giving of advice by law enforcement officers as to services of professional bondsmen.

Professional bondsmen, their agents, or employees shall not solicit business as bondsmen or loiter about or around jails, places where prisoners are confined, or the courts for the purpose of engaging in or soliciting business as such bondsmen. No state or municipal law enforcement officer or keeper or employee of a penal institution may suggest to or give advice to, in any manner whatsoever, any prisoner regarding the services of a professional bondsman to write a criminal bond for the appearance of a prisoner in any court at any time.

## History

Ga. L. 1921, p. 243, § 3; Code 1933, § 27-504.

## Cross References

Prohibition against loitering near inmates generally, § 42-5-17.