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title: O.C.G.A. § 38-2-1109. Property other than military property; waste, spoilage, or destruction.
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# O.C.G.A. § 38-2-1109. Property other than military property; waste, spoilage, or destruction.

Any person subject to this article who willfully or recklessly wastes, spoils, or otherwise willfully and wrongfully takes, sells, destroys, or damages any property of another other than military property of the United States or of another state shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

## History

Code 1981, § 38-2-1109, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98.

## Cross References

Procedure for complaint alleging willful damage to property by members of organized militia, § 38-2-576.

## U.s. Code.

For similar provision in Uniform Code of Military Justice, see 10 U.S.C. § 909.