O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-5-188 (2019)

Forgery or falsification prohibited

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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 employee, representative, or agent of a telecommunications company who forges a customer's signature on a letter of agency or otherwise falsifies evidence of customer authorization of a change of a primary local exchange or long distance carrier shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Each instance of such forgery or falsification shall be a separate offense.

History

(Code 1981, § 46-5-188, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 919, § 1.)

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Fingerprinting required. - An offense under O.C.G.A. § 46-5-188 would be desig-

nated as one which requires fingerprinting. 1998 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 98-20.