O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 14-3-129 (2019)

Penalty for signing false document

✓ 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 person who signs a document he or she knows is false in any material respect with intent that the document be delivered to the Secretary of State for filing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $500.00.

History

(Code 1981, § 14-3-129, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 465, § 1; Ga. L. 2004, p. 508, § 66.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - Organization sought to be incorporated under an unconstitutional statute as a de facto corporation, 136 ALR 187.

Enforceability in another jurisdiction of personal liability of stockholders for debts of corporation whose organization is incomplete or defective, 42 ALR2d 659.