O.C.G.A.
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.
Municipal authorities may license pawnbrokers, define their powers
and privileges by ordinance, impose taxes upon them, revoke their licenses, and exercise such general supervision as will ensure fair dealing between the pawnbroker and his customers.
History
Ga. L. 1868, p. 136, § 1; Code 1873, § 2137; Code 1882, § 2137; Civil Code
1895, §§ 755, 2955; Civil Code 1910, §§ 904, 3527; Code 1933, § 12-611.
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Municipal corporation not empowered to allow pawnbrokers to charge usury. Lockwood v. Muhlberg, 124 Ga.
660, 53 S.E. 92, 1906 Ga. LEXIS 579 (1906).
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 54 Am. Jur. 2d, Moneylenders and Pawnbrokers, § 5 et seq. C.J.S. 70 C.J.S., Pawnbrokers, §§ 2-4. ALR. Necessity of dealer’s license to autho-
rize sale of articles taken as security for or to satisfy a debt, 36 A.L.R. 685. Constitutionality of statutes regulating business of making small loans, 125 A.L.R. 743; 149 A.L.R. 1424.
Notes of Decisions
Pawnmart, Inc. v. Gwinnett Cnty., 608 S.E.2d 639 (Ga. 2005).
· cites it 2× “Pawnmart argues that OCGA§ 44-12-136, by granting “municipal authorities” the right to regulate pawnbrokers, has by implication preempted the right of counties to do so.”
Howell v. Roberts, 656 F. Supp. 1150 (N.D. Ga. 1987).
· cites it 2× “…at 1821 . In Georgia, pawn shops have long been subject to close supervision by the state and by municipalities. See O.C.G.A. § 44-12-136; Ga.L. 1868, p. 136 § 1; Code 1873 § 2137; Code 1882, § 2137; Civil Code 1895, §§ 755, 2955; Civil Code 1910, § 904, 3527; Code 1933 §…”
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