O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-7-16 (2019)

Penalty for making false survey

✓ 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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Any county surveyor or other person acting as such who knowingly surveys nonvacant land as vacant land or makes any other false survey shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 558; Code 1868, § 622; Code 1873, § 581; Code 1882, § 581; Civil Code 1895, § 489; Pe-

nal Code 1895, § 278; Civil Code 1910, § 607; Penal Code 1910, § 282; Code 1933, § 23-9903.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 20 C.J.S., Counties, §§ 198, 199.

CHAPTER 8 COUNTY POLICE Sec.

Election or appointment of county police; qualifications. Terms of office; removal; authority to abolish county police force. Bonds and actions thereon. Establishment of salaries; payment; tax levy.

Sec.

Powers of county police generally. Inspection of and reports on roads and bridges [Repealed]. Rules and regulations for conduct, management, and control of county police.

Cross references. - Police power of counties, generally, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. IX, Sec. II, Para. III(a)(1). JUDICIAL DECISIONS No change in general law. - Nothing in this chapter (especially Ga. L. 1914, p. 142, § 6 (see now O.C.G.A. § 36-8-3)) which authorizes the appointment of county police officers, insofar as the statute may undertake to fix the liability of the sureties upon a county officer’s bond, changes the general law as contained in former Civil Code 1910, § 291 (see now

O.C.G.A. § 45-4-24). Hodge v. United States Fid. & Guar. Co., 42 Ga. App. 84, 155 S.E. 95 (1930). Cited in Levine v. Perry, 204 Ga. 323, 49 S.E.2d 820 (1948); Barge v. Camp, 209 Ga. 38, 70 S.E.2d 360 (1952); Thompson v. Hornsby, 235 Ga. 561, 221 S.E.2d 192 (1975).