O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 16-8-21 (2019)

Removal or abandonment of shopping carts

✓ 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) As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘shopping cart’’ means those pushcarts of the type which are commonly provided by grocery stores, drugstores, or other merchant stores or markets for the use of the public in transporting commodities in stores and markets and incidentally from the store to a place outside the store.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to remove a shopping cart from the premises of the owner of such shopping cart without the consent, given at the time of such removal, of the owner or of his or her agent, servant, or employee. For the purpose of this Code section, the premises shall include all the parking area set aside by the owner or on behalf of the owner for the parking of cars for the convenience of the patrons of the owner.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to abandon a shopping cart upon any public street, sidewalk, way, or parking lot other than a parking lot on the premises of the owner.

(d) Any person who violates this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

(Ga. L. 1975, p. 848, § 1; Ga. L. 2012, p. 162, § 1/HB 1093.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - What amounts to asportation which will support charge of larceny, 19 A.L.R. 724; 144 A.L.R. 1383.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 2010–2013 · leading case: Lucky v. State, 689 S.E.2d 825 (Ga. 2010).

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Lucky v. State, 689 S.E.2d 825 (Ga. 2010). · cites it 2× “Aggravated assault with intent to rob (OCGA § 16-8-21 (a)) requires an assault upon the victim, with the intent to rob.”

In the Interest Of: S. M., a Child (Ga. Ct. App. 2013). “In pertinent part, the designated felony statute, OCGA § 15-11-63, defines a “designated felony act” as an act which constitutes “a second or subsequent violation of Code Sections 16-8-21 through 16-8-9, relating to theft, if the property which was the subject of the theft was a…”

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