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title: O.C.G.A. § 44-3-185. False advertising prohibited.
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# O.C.G.A. § 44-3-185. False advertising prohibited.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, to sell or offer for sale time-share intervals in this state by authorizing, using, directing, or aiding in the dissemination, publication, distribution, or circulation of any statement, advertisement, radio broadcast, or telecast concerning the time-share project in which the time-share intervals are offered, which contains any statement or sketch which is false or misleading or contains any representation or pictorial representation of proposed improvements or nonexistent scenes without clearly indicating that the improvements are proposed and the scenes do not exist.

(b) Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to hold the publisher or employee of any newspaper, or any job printer, or any broadcaster or telecaster, or any magazine publisher, or any of the employees thereof, liable for any publication referred to in subsection (a) of this Code section unless the publisher, employee, or printer has actual knowledge of the falsity thereof or has an interest either as an owner or agent in the time-share project so advertised.

## History

Code 1981, § 44-3-185, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 1255, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1386, § 4; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1260, § 1.

## Code Commission Notes

Pursuant to § 28-9-5, in 1988, a comma was deleted following ‘‘contains any statement’’ near the middle of subsection (a).