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

O.C.G.A. § 7-1-1019 (2019)

Criminal penalties

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Any person and the several members, officers, directors, agents, and employees thereof who:

(1) Shall violate the provisions of subsection (a) or (a.1) of Code Section 7-1-1002, by the willful transaction of a mortgage business without a license or exemption, shall be guilty of a felony punishable as provided in Code Section 7-1-845; or

(2) Shall violate any of the other provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or by both fine and imprisonment.

History

Code 1981, § 7-1-1019, enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 543, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97,

§ 7; Ga. L. 1999, p. 674, § 40; Ga. L. 2009, p. 252, § 1/HB 312; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 7/HB 90.

Annotations

The 2015 amendment, effective March 13, 2015, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted "subsection (a) or (a.1)" for "subsection (a)" in paragraph (1).