O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 37-3-8 (2019)

Loitering or trespassing on grounds of psychiatric hospital

✓ 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 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.

History

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

Annotations

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.

ARTICLE 2 HOSPITALIZATION AND TREATMENT OF VOLUNTARY PATIENTS