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title: O.C.G.A. § 43-19-27. Penalty.
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# O.C.G.A. § 43-19-27. Penalty.

Any person who publicly practices or offers to practice publicly geology for others in this state without being registered in accordance with this chapter; any person presenting or attempting to use as his own the certificate of registration or the seal of another; any person who gives any false or forged evidence of any kind to the board or to any member thereof in obtaining a certificate of registration; any person who falsely impersonates any other registrant of like or different name; or any person who attempts to use an expired or revoked certificate of registration or who attempts to practice at any time during a period when the board has suspended or revoked his certificate of registration shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

## History

Code 1933, § 84-2525A, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 163, § 1; Code 1933, § 84-2125A, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1976, p. 695, § 1.