O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 42-5-40 (2019)

Requiring inmates to do unnecessary work on Sunday

✓ 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 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.

History

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.

Annotations

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.