O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-1170 (2019)

Providing false information to obtain free school meals for child; notice on forms; 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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(a) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to provide false information on behalf of any school child in order to obtain school meals without charge or at a reduced price for such child or to fail to correct a false impression, if such person knows of such false impression, of an existing fact or set of circumstances which, if not corrected, would otherwise entitle such child to a meal without charge or at a reduced price.

(b) The forms used by any county or independent school system for the purpose of determining the qualifications for free school meals or school meals at a reduced price shall include thereon a statement that supplying false information in the completion of such form is a misdemeanor under Georgia law.

History

Ga. L. 1976, p. 638, §§ 1-3.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 37 Am. Jur. 2d, Fraud and Deceit, §§ 11, 134, 296 et seq.

C.J.S. 37 C.J.S., Fraud, §§ 1, 133.

ARTICLE 27 LOITERING AT OR DISRUPTING SCHOOLS