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O.C.G.A. § 37-3-8 — Loitering or trespassing on grounds of psychiatric hospital | Georgia Code
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TITLE 37 MENTAL HEALTH

Section 3. Examination, Treatment, etc., for Mental Illness, 37-3-1 through 37-3-168.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

37-3-8. Loitering or trespassing on grounds of psychiatric hospital.

Any person who loiters about or trespasses on the property of any state owned or state operated psychiatric hospital or drives or rides over the grounds or roads of such hospital property with horses, automobiles, bicycles, motorcycles, or other vehicles, except in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be posted under the authority of the board, commits the offense of criminal trespass.

(Ga. L. 1918, p. 274, § 1; Code 1933, § 35-9902; Code 1933, § 88-2716, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.)

Cross references.

- Penalty for criminal trespass, § 16-7-21.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Validity of loitering statutes and ordinances, 25 A.L.R.3d 836.

Validity, construction, and application of loitering statutes and ordinances, 72 A.L.R.5th 1.

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