O.C.G.A.

7-6A-8 (2019)

Enforcement of chapter; penalties for violations

✓ 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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(a) The Attorney General, the district attorneys of this state, and the commissioner of banking and finance shall have jurisdiction to enforce this chapter through their general regulatory powers and through civil process. The Commissioner of Insurance shall have like authority to enforce paragraph (1) of Code Section 7-6A-3. (b) Any person, including members, officers, and directors of a creditor, who knowingly violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, is subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000.00 for each violation or to imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both.

History

Code 1981, § 7-6A-8, enacted by Ga. L. 2002, p. 455, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 1, § 1.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Offenses arising under O.C.G.A. § 7-6A-1 et seq. and designated as misdemeanors under O.C.G.A. § 7-6A-8

require fingerprinting. 2002 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 2002-7.