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O.C.G.A. § 36-9-11 — Destruction or damaging of any county building or its appurtenances or furniture | Georgia Code

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TITLE 36 LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Section 9. County Property Generally, 36-9-1 through 36-9-11.

ARTICLE 2 COUNTY GOVERNING AUTHORITIES

36-9-11. Destruction or damaging of any county building or its appurtenances or furniture.

Any person who designedly destroys, injures, or defaces any public building or its appurtenances or furniture or uses the same for an indecent purpose shall be liable for the damages and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 472; Code 1868, § 534; Code 1873, § 500; Code 1882, § 500; Civil Code 1895, § 358; Penal Code 1895, § 725; Civil Code 1910, § 407; Penal Code 1910, § 777; Code 1933, §§ 91-707, 91-9903.)

Cross references.

- Criminal penalty for destroying, damaging, or otherwise affecting government property, § 16-7-24.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Applicability to town jail.

- This section applies to all holdings owned by a state or the state's subdivisions, including a town jail. Shepherd v. State, 16 Ga. App. 248, 85 S.E. 83 (1915) (see O.C.G.A. § 36-9-11).

Urinating on courthouse door-facing a misdemeanor.

- Entering a courthouse and urinating against the door-facing therein is a misdemeanor, whether as a result thereof the building is injured or defaced or not. Smith v. State, 110 Ga. 292, 35 S.E. 166 (1900).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 52 Am. Jur. 2d, Malicious Mischief and Related Offenses, § 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 22.

C.J.S.

- 54 C.J.S., Malicious or Criminal Mischief, §§ 1, 2.

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