O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-11-6 (2019)

Demanding more than legal fees for advertising

✓ 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 judge of the probate court, sheriff, coroner, clerk, marshal, or other officer who shall receive, collect, or demand other and greater fees for any legal advertising than are provided by law shall be guilty of extortion as defined in Code Section 45-11-5 and shall be punished as provided in that Code section.

History

(Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 81, § 2; Code 1863, § 3634; Code 1868, § 3659; Code 1882, § 3704b; Penal Code 1895, § 303; Penal Code 1910, § 307; Code 1933, § 89-9911; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 45.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Rates for legal advisements, § 9-13-143. RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 31A Am. Jur. 2d, Extortion, Blackmail, and Threats, § 6 et seq. C.J.S. - 35 C.J.S., Extortion, §§ 5, 12. ALR. - Construction and application of § 2C1.1 of United States Sentencing

Guidelines (18 USCS APPX § 2C1.1) pertaining to offenses involving public officials offering, giving, soliciting, or receiving bribes, or extortion under color of official right, 144 ALR Fed. 615.