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O.C.G.A. § 31-1-4 — Penalties for false representation, impersonation | Georgia Code
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TITLE 31 HEALTH

Section 1. General Provisions; Access to Eye Care, 31-1-1 through 31-1-23.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

31-1-4. Penalties for false representation, impersonation.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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

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.

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