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Title 35. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND AGENCIES · Chapter 3. GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION · Article 5. GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION NOMENCLATURE

35-3-102. Permission required for use of bureau nomenclature.

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

  1. Whoever, except with the written permission of the director, knowingly uses the words “Georgia Bureau of Investigation,” “GBI,” “agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation,” “Division of Forensic Sciences,” “DOFS,” “Georgia Crime Information Center,” “GCIC,” or “State Crime Lab” in referring to Georgia’s state crime lab in connection with any advertisement, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, play, motion picture, broadcast, telecast, or other production in a manner reasonably calculated to convey the impression that such advertisement, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, play, motion picture, broadcast, telecast, or other production is approved, endorsed, or authorized by or associated with the bureau shall be in violation of this article.

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

Code 1981, § 35-3-102, enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 925, § 3; Ga. L. 2004, p. 626, § 2.

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