{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-10-4-32","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 10-4-32","heading":"Criminal penalties for violations; immunity of sureties.","body":"(a) Every person who, without lawful authority, shall convert to his own use, or use for purposes of securing a loan, or remove from a warehouse under this article, contrary to this article or the regulations promulgated under this article, any agricultural product received at such warehouse for storage; or who shall forge, alter, counterfeit, simulate, or falsely misrepresent, or without proper authority use any license issued by the Commissioner under this article; or who shall issue or utter a false or fraudulent receipt or certificate of weight or grade or other class for any agricultural product under this article; or change with fraudulent intent in any manner an original receipt or such a certificate subsequent to issuance, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be fined not less than $2,000.00 nor more than $20,000.00 or double the value of the products involved if such double value exceeds $20,000.00, or imprisoned for not less than two years nor more than ten years, or both.\n(b) Every person who shall fraudulently alter or falsely represent a sample drawn under this article; or who shall fraudulently grade, otherwise classify, or weigh, or draw with intent to deceive a false sample of any agricultural product received at any warehouse under this article for storage; or who otherwise shall violate any provision of this article or of the regulations promulgated under this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.\n(c) For the purposes of this Code section the bondsman bonding such person or warehouseman shall not be liable for the criminal penalties provided in this Code section.","path":["TITLE 10 Commerce and Trade","CHAPTER 4 Warehousemen","Article 1 State Licensed and Bonded Warehouses"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.10.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"9149a3925ce4970b631594525fad7c78ff147b43d155c55f399acbc485fa6448","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-10-4-31","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-10-4-33"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}