{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-20-5-52","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 20-5-52","heading":"Prohibition of theft or damage of library property.","body":"Any person who shall steal or unlawfully take or willfully or maliciously write upon, cut, tear, deface, disfigure, soil, obliterate, break, or destroy or who shall sell or buy or receive, knowing it to have been stolen, any book, pamphlet, document, newspaper, periodical, map, chart, picture, portrait, engraving, statue, coin, medal, equipment, specimen, recording, video product, microform, computer software, film, or other work of literature or object of art or the equipment necessary to its display or use belonging to or in the care of a public library shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.","path":["TITLE 20 Education","CHAPTER 5 Libraries","Article 2 Local and Regional Public Libraries","PART 2 County and Regional Public Libraries"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.20.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":"5a4f789bfd377e8fa75cdc0082fab4d636675bc3eb1bafec605acab8c9f31a41","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-20-5-51","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-20-5-53"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}