2025 Georgia Codes – Page 116

Any officer authorized to administer oaths or to take and certify acknowledgments who knowingly makes a
false acknowledgment, certificate, or statement concerning the appearance before him or the taking of an
oath or affirmation by any person is guilty of a misdemeanor.

A person who knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a
material fact; makes a false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or makes or uses any false
writing or document, knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry, in
any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of state government or of the government of
any county, city, or other political subdivision of this state shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a
fine of not more than $1,000.00 or by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years, or both.