O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 16-7-84 (2019)
Distribution of certain materials to persons under 21 years of age
✓ 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) It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute or to offer to distribute a destructive device, explosive, poison gas, or detonator to any person who is under 21 years of age.
(b) Any person convicted of a violation of this Code section shall be punished, in the case of an individual, by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than three years or by a fine of not more than $10,000.00 or both or, if the defendant is a corporation, by a fine of not more than $20,000.00 or not fewer than 3,000 hours of community service or both.
History
(Code 1981, § 16-7-84, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 416, § 3.)
Annotations
Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1996, a semico-
lon was deleted following ‘‘$10,000.00’’ in subsection (b).