O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 40-5-179 (2019)

Fraudulent identification cards; penalties

✓ 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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It is a misdemeanor for any person: (1) To lend his or her identification card for persons with disabilities to any other person or knowingly to permit the use thereof by another; and (2) To display or represent as his or her own any identification card for persons with disabilities not issued to him or her.

History

Code 1981, § 40-5-179, enacted by Ga.

L. 1989, p. 628, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048,

MOTOR VEHICLES & TRAFFIC

§ 4; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1302, § 7; Ga. L. 2002, p. 551, § 7.

Annotations

Law reviews. For note on the 2002 amendment of this

Code section, see 19 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 81 (2002).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Fingerprinting. - Offenses arising under O.C.G.A. § 40-5-179(1) and (2)

require fingerprinting. 2002 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 2002-7.