Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 50. STATE GOVERNMENT · Chapter 16. PUBLIC PROPERTY · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

50-16-5. Defacing or injuring capitol building or grounds.

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If any person shall mar, deface, or in any way injure the capitol building, the approaches thereto, the trees, shrubbery, or grounds belonging to same, or any of the furniture, fixtures, or property therein, he 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.

Ga. L. 1892, p. 100, § 1; Penal Code 1895, § 222; Penal Code 1910, § 219; Code 1933, § 91-9901.

Criminal penalty for interference with government property, § 16-7-24.

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