{"id":"DUT-GA-004","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Georgia","state":"GA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"General Assembly of Georgia (Code 1933, section 88-301, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, section 1)","authority":"Title 31, Chapter 5 (Administration and Enforcement)","instrument":"O.C.G.A. sections 31-5-8 and 31-5-9","title":"Penalty for violations of the provisions of this title; Injunctions for enjoining violations of the provisions of this title; injunctions to abate public nuisances","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY"],"addressees":["persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises (public-nuisance abatement); every business subject to a Department or county-board regulation or order"],"clause":"Any person violating the provisions of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor... [section 31-5-9(a):] The Department of Public Health and all county boards of health... are empowered to institute appropriate proceedings for injunction... for the purpose of enjoining a violation of any provision of this title... or of any regulation or order duly issued by the department...","enforcement":"Misdemeanor (section 31-5-8; the general misdemeanor punishment provision, O.C.G.A. section 17-10-3, was not read in this exhibit); injunction, supersedeas and attachment for contempt (section 31-5-9)","functions":[],"notes":"Every person must comply with Title 31 and with every regulation or order duly issued by the Department or a county board of health under it; violation is a crime, and the Department and county boards may also enjoin the violation and \u0027maintain action for injunction to abate any public nuisance which is injurious to the public health, safety, or comfort,\u0027 \u0027notwithstanding the fact that such violation also constitutes a crime.\u0027","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2024/T31%20(V23)%202019.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":3338916,"grade":"primary","character":"order_penalty","description":"","collection":"DUT-GA","url":"/library/DUT-GA-004","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-GA-004","citation":"General Assembly of Georgia (Code 1933, section 88-301, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, section 1), O.C.G.A. sections 31-5-8 and 31-5-9 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-004)","stateName":"Georgia","related":["DUT-GA-001","DUT-GA-014","DUT-GA-002","DUT-GA-003","DUT-GA-005","DUT-GA-015","DUT-GA-018"]}