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2018 Georgia Code 42-5-40 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)

O.C.G.A. 42-5-40 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 42-5-40

TITLE 42 PENAL INSTITUTIONS

Section 5. Correctional Institutions of State and Counties, 42-5-1 through 42-5-125.

ARTICLE 2 WARDENS, SUPERINTENDENTS, AND OTHER PERSONNEL

42-5-40. Requiring inmates to do unnecessary work on Sunday.

Any superintendent, warden, or other correctional official who causes any inmate to do any work on Sunday, except works of necessity, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ga. L. 1908, p. 1119, § 14; Penal Code 1910, § 420; Code 1933, § 26-6909; Code 1933, § 26-9909, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.)

Law reviews.

- For comment criticizing judicial intervention in Brown v. Teel, 236 A.2d 699 (N.H. 1967), and advocating deference to legislative determination of Sunday business law, see 19 Mercer L. Rev. 445 (1968). For comment on Hughes v. Reynolds, 223 Ga. 727, 157 S.E.2d 746 (1967), holding the Sunday Business Activities Act of 1967 (Code 1933, Ch. 96-8) unconstitutional, see 19 Mercer L. Rev. 479 (1968).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Validity, construction, and effect of "Sunday closing" or "blue" laws - modern status, 10 A.L.R.4th 246.

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