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title: O.C.G.A. § 42-5-39. Refusal by officer to receive inmates in correctional institution.
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# O.C.G.A. § 42-5-39. Refusal by officer to receive inmates in correctional institution.

If the superintendent or warden of a state or county correctional institution or other officer or person employed therein whose duty it is to receive inmates fails or refuses to do so, he shall be punished by confinement not exceeding ten years and shall be dismissed from office.

## History

Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 807.; Code 1863, § 4381; Code 1868, § 4419; Code 1873, § 4487; Code 1882, § 4487; Penal Code 1895, § 286; Penal Code 1910, § 290; Code 1933, § 77-9903.