O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-1-4 (2019)

Penalties for false representation, impersonation

✓ 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) Any person who shall make, utter, execute, or submit to the department or to any county board of health any oral or written representation, knowing the same to be false, for the purpose of obtaining anything of value, including any service, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) Any person who shall impersonate or otherwise falsely hold himself out to any other person as an agent of the department or of any county board of health shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Ga. L. 1950, p. 222, §§ 1, 2; Code 1933, §§ 88-9901, 88-9902, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.

Annotations

Cross references. - Impersonating public officers or employees generally, § 16-10-23.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Abel v. State, 190 Ga. 651, 10 S.E.2d 198 (1940). RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Health, § 21.