2025 Georgia Codes – Page 103

(a) A person commits the offense of using a deceptive business practice when in the regular course of busi-
ness he knowingly:
(1) Uses or possesses for use a false weight or measure or any other device for falsely determining or record-
ing any quality or quantity;
(2) Sells, offers, or exposes for sale or delivers less than the represented quality or quantity of any commod-
ity; or
(3) Takes or attempts to take more than the represented quantity of any commodity when as buyer he fur-
nishes the weight or measure.
(b) Any person who commits the offense of using a deceptive business practice shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, a person who destroys, removes, conceals,
encumbers, transfers, or otherwise deals with property subject to a security interest with intent to hinder
enforcement of that interest shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) A person who destroys, removes, conceals, encumbers, transfers, or otherwise deals with property subject
to a security interest with intent to hinder enforcement of that security interest and in so doing does damage
to such property in an amount greater than $500.00 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggra-
vated nature.
(c) In a prosecution under this Code section the crime shall be considered as having been committed in any
county where any act in furtherance of the criminal scheme was done or caused to be done.

(a) A person commits the offense of improper solicitation of money when he solicits payment of money by
another by means of a statement or invoice or any writing that could reasonably be interpreted as a state-
ment or invoice for goods not yet ordered or for services not yet performed and not yet ordered, unless there
appears on the face of the statement or invoice or writing in 30 point boldface type the following warning:
“This is a solicitation for the order of goods or services and you are under no obligation to make payment
unless you accept the offer contained herein.”
(b) Any person who violates subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(c) In addition to other remedies, any person damaged by noncompliance with subsection (a) of this Code
section is entitled to damages in the amount equal to three times the sum solicited.