---
title: O.C.G.A. § 52-7-12.4. Serious injury by vessel.
collection: code
id: 52-7-12.4
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 52-7-12.4 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.4
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.4.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.4/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t52-t53-(v40)-2021-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=d23ba203_0#page=140
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.3.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-7-12.5.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: WATERS OF THE STATE, PORTS, AND WATERCRAFT / REGISTRATION, OPERATION, AND SALE OF WATERCRAFT / GENERAL PROVISIONS
---

# O.C.G.A. § 52-7-12.4. Serious injury by vessel.

Whoever, without malice, shall cause bodily harm to another by depriving him or her of a member of his or her body, by rendering a member of his or her body useless, by seriously disfiguring his or her body or a member thereof, or by causing organic brain damage which renders the body or any member thereof useless through the violation of subsection (j) of Code Section 52-7-8.2 or Code Section 52-7-12 or Code Section 52-7-12.1 or subsection (b) of Code Section 52-7-13 or subsection (a) of Code Section 52-7-14 or subsection (c) of Code Section 52-7-25 shall be guilty of the crime of serious injury by vessel. A person convicted under this Code section shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than five years.

## History

Code 1981, § 52-7-12.4, enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 236, § 2.