Title 16

Bingo games shall be operated only on premises owned by the nonprofit, tax-exempt organization operating the bingo game, on property leased by the nonprofit, tax-exempt organization and used regularly by that organization for purposes other than the operation of a bingo game, or on…

No person under the age of 18 years shall be permitted to play any game or games of bingo conducted pursuant to any license issued under this part unless accompanied by an adult. No person under the age of 18 years shall be permitted to conduct or assist in the conducting of any …

(a) A licensee that conducts or operates a bingo session shall maintain the following records for at least three years from the date on which the bingo session is conducted: (1) An itemized list of the gross receipts for each session; (2) An itemized list of all expenses other th…

The Secretary of State is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations which he or she deems necessary for the proper administration and enforcement of this part. History. Ga. L. 1977, p. 1164, § 9; Ga. L. 1980, p. 422, § 9; Ga. L. 2021, p. 394, § 8/HB 410.

Any person who operates a bingo game for which a license is required without a valid license issued by the Secretary of State as provided in this part commits the offense of commercial gambling as defined in Code Section 16-12-22 and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished acc…

(a) The Secretary of State shall succeed to all rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and pending and finalized administrative orders of the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation applicable to regulation of bingo games and recreational bingo under this part which are…

State, 261 Ga. 669, 409 S.E.2d 645, 1991 Ga. LEXIS 831 (1991). Terms genitals and pubic area in O.C.G.A. § 16-12-100(a)(4)(D), as to exploitation of children, do not include buttocks or breasts. Weyer v. State, 333 Ga. App. 706, 776 S.E.2d 304, 2015 Ga. App. LEXIS 504 (2015). “Vi…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) “Bulletin board system” means a computer data and file service that is accessed wirelessly or by physical connection to store and transmit information. (2) “CD-ROM” means a compact disc with read only memory which has the capacity to…

(a) This Code section shall be known and may be cited as the “Computer or Electronic Pornography and Child Exploitation Prevention Act of 2007.” (b) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) “Child” means any person under the age of 16 years. (2) “Electronic device” means any d…

(a) As used in this Code section, the terms “sexual conduct,” “sexual excitement,” and “sadomasochistic abuse” have the same meanings as provided for those terms in Code Section 16-12-100.1, relating to electronically furnishing obscene materials to minors; the term “sexually exp…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) “Commercial social networking website” includes any website, application, portal, or other means of accessing the internet that: (A) Is operated by a person that derives revenue from membership fees, advertising, or other sources re…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) “Computer” has the same meaning as provided in Code Section 16-9-92. (2) “Electronic device” has the same meaning as provided in Code Section 16-12-100.2. (3) “Minor” means any person under the age of 18 years. (4) “Pattern of condu…

The General Assembly finds that the sale, loan, and exhibition of harmful materials to minors has become a matter of increasingly grave concern to the people of this state. The elimination of such sales, loans, and exhibition and the consequent protection of minors from harmful ma…

As used in this part, the term: (1) “Harmful to minors” means that quality of description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse, when it: (A) Taken as a whole, predominantly appeals to the prurient, shameful, o…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to sell or loan for monetary consideration or otherwise furnish or disseminate to a minor: (1) Any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, or similar visual representation or image of a person or portion of th…

The provisions of Code Section 16-12-103 shall not apply to any public library operated by the state or any of its political subdivisions nor to any library operated as a part of any school, college, or university. History. Code 1981, § 16-12-104, enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 1495,…

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, any person who violates any provision of Code Section 16-12-103 or 16-12-104 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature. (b) Any person who violates subsection (a) of Code Section 16-12-103 shall…

(a) A person commits the offense of distributing obscene material when he sells, lends, rents, leases, gives, advertises, publishes, exhibits, or otherwise disseminates to any person any obscene material of any description, knowing the obscene nature thereof, or offers to do so, …

(a) A person commits the offense of distributing material depicting nudity or sexual conduct when he sends unsolicited through the mail or otherwise unsolicited causes to be delivered material depicting nudity or sexual conduct to any person or residence or office unless there is…

The use of any premises in violation of any of the provisions of this part shall constitute a public nuisance. History. Code 1933, § 26-2103, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 344, § 2.

Any materials declared to be obscene by this part and advertisements for such materials are declared to be contraband. History. Code 1933, § 26-2104, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 344, § 3.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any motion picture theater owner, operator, or projectionist to display to the audience within the theater scenes from a film to be shown at the theater at some future time when the viewing of that film from which the scenes are taken is restricted to a…

(a) A person who commits or attempts to commit any of the following acts in a public transit bus, a rapid rail car, or a rapid rail station or intermodal bus station shall be guilty of a misdemeanor: (1) Spits, defecates, or urinates; (2) Discards litter, except into receptacles …

A person who commits or attempts to commit any of the following acts shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if such person: (1) Sells, makes, or possesses any coin, token, stored value card, transfer, transaction card, ticket, or any other fare medium which has been altered from its or…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Transportation Passenger Safety Act.” History. Ga. L. 1978, p. 2238, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 415, § 2; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1094, § 5.

As used in this part, the term: (1) “Aircraft” means any machine, whether heavier or lighter than air, used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air. (2) “Avoid a security measure” means to take any action that is intended to result in any person, baggage, container, or …

(a)(1) A person commits the offense of bus or rail vehicle hijacking when he or she: (A) Seizes or exercises control by force or violence or threat of force or violence of any bus or rail vehicle within the jurisdiction of this state; (B) By force or violence or by threat of forc…

(a) It shall be unlawful to remove any baggage, freight, container, or other item transported upon an aircraft, bus, or rail vehicle or stored in a terminal without consent of the owner of such property or the company or its duly authorized representative. Any person violating th…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Code section, it shall be unlawful for any person to avoid or interfere with a properly functioning security measure. Any person convicted of a violation of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Code section, it shall be unlawful intentionally to disable or inhibit the operation or effectiveness of any properly functioning safety device of any description or to render any item or substance less safe when said item or substance is …

(a) This part shall be cumulative and supplemental to any other law of this state. A conviction or acquittal under any of the criminal provisions of Code Section 16-12-123, 16-12-124, 16-12-125, or 16-12-126 shall not be a bar to any other civil or criminal proceeding. (b) In add…

(a) A person commits the offense of criminal abortion when, in violation of Code Section 16-12-141, he or she administers any medicine, drugs, or other substance whatever to any woman or when he or she uses any instrument or other means whatever upon any woman with intent to prod…

(a) As used in this article, the term: (1) “Abortion” means the act of using, prescribing, or administering any instrument, substance, device, or other means with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy with knowledge that termination will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the deat…

(a)(1) Every hospital and clinic in which abortions are performed or occur spontaneously, and any laboratory to which the aborted fetuses are delivered, shall provide for the disposal of the aborted fetuses by cremation, interment, or other manner approved of by the commissioner …

(a) Nothing in this article shall require a hospital or other medical facility or physician to admit any patient under the provisions of this article for the purpose of performing an abortion. In addition, any person who states in writing an objection to any abortion or all abort…

A person who fails to file or maintain in complete form any of the written reports required in this article within the time set forth is guilty of a misdemeanor. History. Code 1933, § 26-1203, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 635, § 1.

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) “Fetus” means the biological offspring of human parents. (2) “Partial-birth abortion” means an abortion in which the person performing the abortion partially vaginally delivers a living human fetus before ending the life of the fetu…

(a) It shall be unlawful, except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, for any person, firm, or corporation to buy or sell, to offer to buy or sell, or to assist another in buying or selling or offering to buy or sell a human body or any part of a human body or buy o…

As used in this article, the term: (1) “Alternative nicotine product” means any noncombustible product containing nicotine that is intended for human consumption, whether chewed, absorbed, dissolved, or ingested by any other means. Such term shall not include any tobacco product,…

(a)(1) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to: (A) Sell or barter, directly or indirectly, any cigarettes, tobacco products, tobacco related objects, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products to any individual under the age of 21 years; (B) Purchase any cigarette…

(a) Any person owning or operating a place of business in which cigarettes, tobacco products, tobacco related objects, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products are sold or offered for sale shall post in a conspicuous place a sign which shall contain the following statemen…

(a)(1) Any person that maintains in such person’s place of business a vending machine which dispenses cigarettes, tobacco products, tobacco related objects, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products shall place or cause to be placed in a conspicuous place on such vending m…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term “tobacco product sample” means a cigarette, tobacco product, alternative nicotine product, or vapor product distributed to members of the general public at no cost for purposes of promoting the product. (b) It shall be unlawful for any p…

(a) The provisions of this article, inclusive, shall be enforced through actions brought in any court of competent jurisdiction by the prosecuting attorney for the county in which the alleged violation occurred as well as through administrative citations issued by special agents …

The state revenue commissioner shall administer and enforce this article and may make reasonable rules and regulations for its administration and enforcement. The state revenue commissioner may designate employees of the Department of Revenue for the purpose of administering and …

As used in this article, the term “low THC oil” means an oil that contains an amount of cannabidiol and not more than 5 percent by weight of tetrahydrocannabinol, tetrahydrocannabinolic acid, or a combination of tetrahydrocannabinol and tetrahydrocannabinolic acid which does not …