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Title 3. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES · Chapter 10. SALE OR POSSESSION OF DISTILLED SPIRITS IN DRY COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES

3-10-9. Common nuisances — Proceedings for abatement of nuisances.

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  1. Any common nuisance as defined in Code Section 3-10-8 shall be an unlawful place, and the act of keeping and maintaining any such place shall be deemed a separate offense for each day that it continues. Common nuisances may be abated by writ of injunction issued out of the superior court upon a complaint filed by the Attorney General, or the district attorney of the superior court, or any citizen of the county in which the nuisance exists. The complaint shall be filed in the county in which the nuisance exists.

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

Ga. L. 1915, Ex. Sess., p. 77, § 4; Code 1933, § 58-104; Code 1933, § 5A-7107, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1573, § 1.

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