O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-3-622 (2019)

Buying, selling, trading, importing, or exporting American Indian burial, sacred, or cultural objects

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) After December 1, 1992, it shall be unlawful for any person to buy, sell, trade, import, or export for purposes of buying, selling, or trading for profit any American Indian burial object, sacred object, or object of cultural patrimony, with knowledge that the object is an American Indian burial or sacred object or an object of cultural patrimony.

(b) Any person who violates the provisions of subsection (a) of this Code section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, may be punished by a fine not to exceed $500.00 for each burial object, sacred object, or object of cultural patrimony involved in such violation.

History

Code 1981, § 12-3-622, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 1790, § 2.

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant

to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1992, a comma was inserted following ‘‘selling’’ in subsection (a).

ARTICLE 10 OFFICIAL GARDENS AND NATURE CENTERS

Cross references. - Department of Industry, Trade, and Tourism, T. 50, C. 7. Editor’s notes. - Former Code Sections 12-3-630 through 12-3-641, enacted

by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1007, § 1, were automatically repealed upon the defeat of the proposed enabling constitutional amendment at the 1998 general election.