O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 16-12-172 (2019)

Posting signs in place of business

✓ 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) Any person owning or operating a place of business in which cigarettes, tobacco products, tobacco related objects, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products are sold or offered for sale shall post in a conspicuous place a sign which shall contain the following statement: “SALE OF CIGARETTES, TOBACCO, TOBACCO PRODUCTS, TOBACCO RELATED OBJECTS, ALTERNATIVE NICOTINE PRODUCTS, OR VAPOR PRODUCTS TO INDIVIDUALS UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE IS PROHIBITED BY LAW.” Such sign shall be printed in letters of at least one-half inch in height.

(b) Any person that fails to comply with the requirements of subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Code 1981, § 16-12-172, enacted by Ga. L. 1987, p. 945, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 343,

§ 3; Ga. L. 2014, p. 130, § 3/HB 251; Ga. L. 2020, p. 257, § 1/SB 375.