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# O.C.G.A. § 38-2-306. Prohibited conduct in area of military duty performance.

(a) Any person who after due warning trespasses upon any armory, arsenal, camp, range, base, or other facility of the organized militia or other place where any force of the organized militia is performing military duty, or who in any manner interrupts or molests the discharge of military duties by any member or force of the organized militia, or who interrupts or prevents the passage of troops of the organized militia, or who insults, by jeer or otherwise, any member of the organized militia may be placed in arrest by any officer of the force performing the military duty at the place where the offense is committed and delivered to the proper civil authorities.

(b) The commanding officer of any force of the organized militia performing military duty in or at any armory, arsenal, camp, range, base, or other facility of the organized militia or other place where the force is performing military duty may prohibit persons from hawking, peddling, vending, selling, or auctioning goods, wares, merchandise, food products, or beverages and may prohibit all gambling, or the sale or use of spirituous beverages, or the establishment or maintenance of a disorderly place within the limits of the armory, arsenal, camp, range, base, or other facility of the organized militia or other place where the force is performing military duty or within such limits not exceeding one mile therefrom as he may prescribe.

(c) Any person who violates any part of subsection (a) or (b) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

## History

Ga. L. 1916, p. 158, § 3; Code 1933, §§ 86-1405, 86-9910; Ga. L. 1951, p. 311, §§ 24, 58; Ga. L. 1955, p. 10, §§ 103, 117.

## Cross References

Criminal trespass generally, § 16-7-21.