2025 Georgia Codes – Page 126

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(a) As used in this Code section, the term:
(1) “Emergency medical technician” shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 16-10-
24.2.
(2) “Firefighter” shall have the same meaning as set forth in Code Section 16-10-24.1.
(3) “Firework” means any combustible or explosive composition or any substance or combination of sub-
stances or article the possession of which is regulated by Chapter 10 of Title 25.
(4) “Law enforcement officer” means any person certified by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and
Training Council as having successfully completed the course of training required by Chapter 8 of Title
35, the “Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Act.”
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly and intentionally ignite a firework when such firework
or component thereof explodes or detonates within 150 feet of or causes injury or harm to an emergency
medical technician, firefighter, or law enforcement officer for the purpose of hindering or disrupting such
emergency medical technician, firefighter, or law enforcement officer during the lawful discharge of his
or her duties.
(c) Any person who violates subsection (b) of this Code section shall be guilty of a high and aggravated
misdemeanor.

(a) A person commits the offense of hindering the apprehension or punishment of a criminal when, with
intention to hinder the apprehension or punishment of a person whom he knows or has reasonable grounds to
believe has committed a felony or to be an escaped inmate or prisoner, he:
(1) Harbors or conceals such person; or
(2) Conceals or destroys evidence of the crime.
(b) A person convicted of the offense of hindering apprehension or punishment of a criminal shall be pun-
ished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years.