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Título 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Capítulo 10. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION · Artículo 4. PERJURY AND RELATED OFFENSES

16-10-70. Perjury.

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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

El texto siguiente es la ley tal como la imprime el estado, en inglés.

  1. (a)

    A person to whom a lawful oath or affirmation has been administered or a person who executes an unsworn declaration as defined in Code Section 9-1-1 commits the offense of perjury when, in a judicial proceeding, he or she knowingly and willfully makes a false statement material to the issue or point in question.#

  2. (b)

    A person convicted of the offense of perjury shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.00 or by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years, or both. A person convicted of the offense of perjury that was a cause of another’s being imprisoned shall be sentenced to a term not to exceed the sentence provided for the crime for which the other person was convicted. A person convicted of the offense of perjury that was a cause of another’s being punished by death shall be punished by life imprisonment.#

Nota de lectura: una palabra dividida en dos líneas en el volumen impreso se unió por regla y no pudo comprobarse contra el vocabulario del propio volumen. La página oficial enlazada abajo resuelve cualquier duda.

Las notas siguientes se imprimen con la sección, pero no son ley promulgada (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). Se muestran aparte del texto.

History

Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, pp. 804, 805.; Code 1863, §§ 4355, 4356, 4363; Code 1868, §§ 4393, 4394, 4401; Code 1873, §§ 4460, 4461, 4468; Code 1882, §§ 4460, 4461, 4468; Penal Code 1895, §§ 256, 257, 262; Penal Code 1910, §§ 259, 260, 265; Ga. L. 1933, p. 40, § 1; Code 1933, §§ 26-4001, 26-4002, 26-4007; Code 1933, § 26-2401, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1; Ga. L. 1973, p. 159, § 2; Ga. L. 2023, p. 120, § 2/HB 80, effective July 1, 2023.

Amendments

The 2023 amendment, effective July 1, 2023, in subsection (a), inserted “or a person who executes an unsworn declaration as defined in Code Section 9-1-1” and inserted “or she”.

Leer la página oficial (el PDF del estado, abierto en la página de la que se leyó este texto).

Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Texto leído de t16-ch7-11-(v14a)-pdf.pdf, Volumen V14A, edición 2018, suplemento de 2025, páginas 80 a 81; acción de fusión: replaced; SHA-256 del archivo 9c8d97e7499f.