Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 3. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES · Chapter 3. REGULATION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES GENERALLY · Article 2. PROHIBITED ACTS

3-3-22. Sale or furnishing of alcoholic beverages to intoxicated persons.

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No alcoholic beverage shall be sold, bartered, exchanged, given, provided, or furnished to any person who is in a state of noticeable intoxication.

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. 1937-38, Ex. Sess., p. 103, § 15; Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 283, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1206, §§ 2, 5; Code 1933, § 5A-509, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1573, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1269, § 21.

Cross references

Liability for acts of intoxicated persons, § 51-1-40.

Law reviews

For note discussing tavern keeper liability in Georgia for injury caused by a person to whom an intoxicant was sold, see 9 Ga. L. Rev. 239 (1974).

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