---
title: O.C.G.A. § 35-3-102. Permission required for use of bureau nomenclature.
collection: code
id: 35-3-102
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 35-3-102 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/35-3-102
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/35-3-102.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/35-3-102/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t35-t36-ch1-59-(v27)-2025-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=66569db4_0#page=181
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/35-3.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/35-3-101.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/35-3-103.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia
heading_path: LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND AGENCIES / GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION / GEORGIA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION NOMENCLATURE
---

# O.C.G.A. § 35-3-102. Permission required for use of bureau nomenclature.

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.

## History

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