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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 21. DEAD BODIES · Article 3. OFFENSES

31-21-40. Penalty.

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

  1. Any person having duties imposed upon him by Code Sections 31-21-20 through 31-21-24 who shall refuse or omit to perform such duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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. 1887, p. 87, § 9; Penal Code 1895, § 416; Penal Code 1910, § 409; Code 1933, § 88-9920; Code 1933, § 88-2711, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.

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