O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 27-1-25 (2019)

Interference with arrest or performance of ranger’s duties

✓ 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 unlawful for any person to resist or interfere by force, menace, threat, or in any other manner with any arrest for violation of any wildlife law. It shall also be unlawful for any person to refuse to go with a conservation ranger or deputy conservation ranger after such an arrest has been made or to interfere with such ranger in the performance of his duty.

History

(Ga. L. 1968, p. 497, § 20; Code 1933, § 45-209, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 396, § 1.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Obstructing or hindering law enforcement officers in discharge of duties generally, § 16-10-24. RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 5 Am. Jur. 2d, Arrest, §§ 81 et seq., 120, 128.