---
title: O.C.G.A. § 52-8-3. Recovery of forfeiture; attachment and replevy of vessels.
collection: code
id: 52-8-3
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 52-8-3 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-8-3
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-8-3.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-8-3/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=196
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/52-8.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-8-2.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-8-4.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 / DISCHARGE OF SUBSTANCES DANGEROUS TO NAVIGATION OR PROPERTY
extraction_warnings:
  - dehyphenation_unverified:forthcom-ing
---

# O.C.G.A. § 52-8-3. Recovery of forfeiture; attachment and replevy of vessels.

Upon receipt by the Board of Pilotage Commissioners of satisfactory evidence of the offense specified in Code Section 52-8-1, it shall be the duty of the board to proceed to recover the forfeiture provided for in that Code section by process of attachment in the name of the state, which may be issued as other attachments on the oath of the informer or of one of the commissioners and may be levied on the vessel from which the offense was committed. The vessel may be replevied by the master, owner, or consignee by giving bond, payable to the state, in double the amount of the penalty, with the condition to have the vessel forthcoming to satisfy such judgment as may be rendered in the action.

## History

Orig. Code 1863, § 1487; Code 1868, § 1544; Code 1873, § 1538; Code 1882, § 1538; Civil Code 1895, § 1686; Civil Code 1910, § 1932; Code 1933, § 98-104.