O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-60-9 (2019)

Investigation of business for issuance of county or municipal license; criminal sanction for violation

✓ 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) No person shall investigate a business for the purpose of providing information to a county or municipal corporation of this state, which information is used in determining whether or not such business shall receive a business or similar license issued pursuant to the valid exercise of the police power of the county or municipal corporation, when such person is employed by or contracting with the county or municipal corporation to make investigations of the type specified in this subsection and such person has been employed by or is then employed by the particular individual business which the person is investigating.

(b) Any person who violates subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Ga. L. 1977, p. 1197, §§ 1, 2.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1988–1988 · leading case: Boatwright v. Mayor of Flemington, 377 S.E.2d 1 (Ga. Ct. App. 1988).

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Boatwright v. Mayor of Flemington, 377 S.E.2d 1 (Ga. Ct. App. 1988). · cites it 2× “See OCGA § 36-60-9. “ ‘The police power is that inherent and plenary power in the state over persons and property, when expressed in the legislative will, which enables the people to prohibit all things inimical to the comfort, safety, health, and welfare of society, and is…”

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