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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 7. LANDLORD AND TENANT · Article 1. IN GENERAL

44-7-18. Effect of leases for purposes of prostitution or assignation.

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

  1. (a)

    As used in this Code section, the term:#

    1. (1)

      ‘‘Assignation’’ means the making of any appointment or engagement for prostitution or any act in furtherance of such appointment or engagement.#

    2. (2)

      ‘‘Prostitution’’ means the offering or giving of the body for sexual intercourse, sex perversion, obscenity, or lewdness for hire.#

    3. (3)

      ‘‘Tourist camp’’ means any temporary or permanent buildings, tents, cabins or structures, or trailers or other vehicles which are maintained, offered, or used for dwelling or sleeping quarters for pay.#

  2. (b)

    All leases and agreements letting, subletting, or renting any house, place, building, tourist camp, or other structure for the purpose of prostitution or assignation shall be void.#

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

Ga. L. 1943, p. 568, § 3.

Cross references

Penalty for prostitution and keeping place of prostitution, §§ 16-6-9, 16-6-10. Abatement of houses of prostitution, Ch. 3, T. 41.

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

Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, pages 832 to 833; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.