O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-9-11 (2019)

Destruction or damaging of any county building or its appurtenances or furniture

✓ 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 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.

History

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.

Annotations

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). 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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Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case (1 in the last 5 years), 2023–2023 · leading case: Bryan Ivey v. State (Ga. Ct. App. 2023).

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Bryan Ivey v. State (Ga. Ct. App. 2023). · cites it 2× “Ivey argues that his conduct falls within OCGA § 36-9-11, destruction or damaging of any county building, which is a misdemeanor, as well as OCGA § 16-7- 24 (a), interference with government property, which is a felony, so he should have been prosecuted for the misdemeanor.”

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