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O.C.G.A. § 44-12-136 — Supervision of pawnbrokers by municipalities | Georgia Code

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TITLE 44 PROPERTY

Section 12. Rights in Personalty, 44-12-1 through 44-12-322.

ARTICLE 3 BAILMENTS

44-12-136. Supervision of pawnbrokers by municipalities.

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.

(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.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Municipal corporation not empowered to allow pawnbrokers to charge usury. Lockwood v. Muhlberg, 124 Ga. 660, 53 S.E. 92 (1906).

Cited in Phillips v. City of Atlanta, 78 Ga. 773, 3 S.E. 431 (1887); Howell v. Roberts, 656 F. Supp. 1150 (N.D. Ga. 1987).

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 authorize 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.

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