{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-50-27-27","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 50-27-27","heading":"Penalty for falsely making, altering, forging, uttering, passing, or counterfeiting ticket; penalty for attempting to influence winning of prize.","body":"(a) Any person who, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, passes, or counterfeits a state lottery ticket shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $50,000.00 or imprisonment for not longer than five years or both.\n(b) Any person who influences or attempts to influence the winning of a prize through the use of coercion, fraud, deception, or tampering with lottery equipment or materials shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $50,000.00 or by imprisonment for not longer than five years or both.","path":["TITLE 50 State Government","CHAPTER 27 Lottery for Education","Article 1 General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.50.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":"2026-09-17T19:34:58Z","sha256":"dca9af15bddeff97293706d05f3f85aeab9480a9ff7670120b2ad27bff15ad5d","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-50-27-26","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-50-27-28"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}