O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 16-11-40 (2019)
Unlawful use of emergency exit door; penalty
✓ 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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It shall be unlawful to use an emergency exit door after having violated Code Section 16-8-14. Any person convicted of violating this Code section shall be guilty of and punished as for a misdemeanor.
History
(Code 1981, § 16-11-40, enacted by Ga. L. 2018, p. 342, § 1/HB 890.)
Annotations
Editor’s notes. - This Code section formerly pertained to criminal defamation. The former Code section was based on Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 812; Code 1863, § 4407; Code 1868, § 4448;
Code 1873, § 4521; Code 1882, § 4521; Penal Code 1895, § 335; Penal Code 1910, § 340; Code 1933, § 26-2101; Code 1933, § 26-2804, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1 and was repealed by Ga. L. 2015, p. 385, § 3-1/HB 252, effective July 1, 2015.