Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 34. LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS · Chapter 9. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

34-9-21. Penalty for receiving unentitled to benefits.

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

Any employee who, with the intent to defraud, receives and retains any income benefits to which he or she is not entitled shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not less than $1,000.00 nor more than $10,000.00 or by imprisonment not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

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.

Ga. L. 1937, p. 230, § 18; Code 1933, § 114-9907, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 198, § 13; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1508, § 1.

For review of 1998 legislation relating to labor and industrial relations, see 15 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 185 (1998).

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Text read from t34-(v26)-2017-pdf.pdf, Volume V26, 2017 edition, page 565; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 8ee6134ad6cf.