{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-43-38-16","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 43-38-16","heading":"Penalty.","body":"Any person who engages in the private detective business or private security business or offers, pretends, or holds himself out as eligible to engage in the private detective business or private security business and who is not legally licensed or registered under this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Each day or fraction of a day that he practices in violation of this chapter shall constitute a separate offense.","path":["TITLE 43 Professions And Businesses","CHAPTER 38 Operators of Private Detective Businesses and Private Security Businesses"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.43.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":"1a82761f6b7d235735dba9fe0ac7d551ae1b5d344ceebcdb394c001183cb8dd2","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-43-38-15","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-43-39-1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}