TITLE 16 CRIMES AND OFFENSES

Section 10. Offenses Against Public Administration, 16-10-1 through 16-10-98.

ARTICLE 1 ABUSE OF GOVERNMENTAL OFFICE

16-10-8. False official certificates or writings by officers or employees of state and political subdivisions.

An officer or employee of the state or any political subdivision thereof or other person authorized by law to make or give a certificate or other writing who knowingly makes and delivers such a certificate or writing containing any statement which he knows to be false shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years.

(Ga. L. 1959, p. 34, § 16; Code 1933, § 26-2311, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.)