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Title 38. MILITARY, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, AND VETERANS AFFAIRS · Chapter 2. MILITARY AFFAIRS · Article 5. CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE · Part 10. PUNITIVE PROVISIONS

38-2-1131. Perjury.

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

  1. Any person subject to this article is guilty of perjury and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct who in a judicial proceeding or in a course of justice willfully and corruptly:

  2. (1)

    Upon a lawful oath or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, gives any false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry; or#

  3. (2)

    In any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury, subscribes any false statement material to the issue or matter of inquiry.#

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, § 38-2-1131, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98.

Cross references

Statute of limitations, § 38-2-437.

Other notes

U.S. Code.
For similar provision in Uniform Code of Military Justice, see 10 U.S.C. § 931.

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Text read from t37-t39-(v28)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V28, 2021 edition, page 516; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4eed692485f5.