Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 45. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES · Chapter 11. MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES CONCERNING PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

45-11-8. Engaging in bail bond business.

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

(a)
1. (1)
  It shall be unlawful for any elected official, officer of the court, law enforcement officer, or attorney in this state to engage either directly or indirectly in the bail bond business. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “elected official” shall not include a person who is elected as a member of the local school board or the governing authority of a county, municipal corporation, or consolidated government.#
2. (2)
  It shall be unlawful for any person who is a member of the governing authority of a county, municipal corporation, or consolidated government to engage either directly or indirectly in the bail bond business within the jurisdiction of the county, municipal corporation, or consolidated government where such person holds office.#
(b)
Any person who violates this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.#

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. 1972, p. 403, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1986, p. 303, § 1; Ga. L. 2004, p. 593, § 1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 437, § 1/HB 980; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1, § 1/SB 16, effective February 25, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective February 25, 2025, designated the existing provisions of subsection (a) as paragraph (a)(1) and added paragraph (a)(2); in the second sentence of paragraph (a)(1), substituted “paragraph, the term” for “Code section,” and “elected as a member of” for “elected to” and added “or the governing authority of a county, municipal corporation, or consolidated government” at the end of paragraph (a)(1).

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