O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 21-2-602 (2019)

Compensation for soliciting persons to register to vote prohibited

✓ 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 illegal to receive, accept, offer, or provide compensation for soliciting persons to register to vote based upon the number of persons registered and any person who knowingly receives, accepts, offers, or provides such compensation on such basis shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Code 1981, § 21-2-600, enacted by Ga. L. 1994, p. 1443, § 14; Code 1981, § 21-2602, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1, effective January 1, 1998, redesignated former Code Section 21-2-601 as present Code Section

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Fingerprinting not required. - An offense under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-602 would not be designated as one which requires

fingerprinting. 1998 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 98-20.