Crimes against Property

(a) Any person who knowingly and with intent: (1) Owns, operates, or conducts a chop shop; (2) Transports any motor vehicle or motor vehicle part to or from a location…

As used in this article, the term: (1) Chop shop means any building, lot, or other premise where one or more persons knowingly engage in altering, destroying, disassembling, dismantling, reassembling,…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) Audio visual recording device means any device capable of recording or transmitting a motion picture, or any part thereof, using…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) Official rating means the official rating of a motion picture by the Classification and Rating Administration of the Motion Picture…

(a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association knowingly to: (1) Transfer or cause to be transferred any sounds or visual images recorded on a phonograph…

(a) A person commits the offense of armed robbery when, with intent to commit theft, he or she takes property of another from the person or the immediate presence of…

(a) A person commits the offense of robbery when, with intent to commit theft, he takes property of another from the person or the immediate presence of another: (1) By…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term dwelling has the same meaning as provided in Code Section 16-7-1. (b) A person shall be guilty of the crime of…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) Mail means a letter, post card, package, bag, or other sealed article that: (A) Is delivered by the United States…

Bottom line This page is a current-reference page for 16-8-14. Theft by shoplifting.. Match the facts to the statutory language and verify local charging practice for enhancements or related offenses.…

(a) Any architect, landscape architect, engineer, contractor, subcontractor, or other person who with intent to defraud shall use the proceeds of any payment made to him on account of improving…

Amended 2021 (a) A person convicted of a violation of Code Sections 16-8-2 through 16-8-9 shall be punished as for a mis- demeanor except: (1)(A) If the property which was…

It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution for violation of Code Sections 16-8-2 through 16-8-9 that the person: (1) Was unaware that the property or service was that of…

Bottom line This page is a current-reference page for 16-8-9. Theft by bringing stolen property into state.. Match the facts to the statutory language and verify local charging practice for…

A person commits the offense of theft by receiving property stolen in another state when he receives, disposes of, or retains stolen property which he knows or should know was…

Bottom line This page is a current-reference page for 16-8-7. Theft by receiving stolen property.. Match the facts to the statutory language and verify local charging practice for enhancements or…

A person commits the offense of theft of lost or mislaid property when he comes into control of property that he knows or learns to have been lost or mislaid…

Amended 2021 (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) Retail property means any article, product, commodity, item, or component intended to be sold in retail commerce. (2)…

The trier of fact may infer that the accused intended to avoid payment due for the rental or lease of any personal property in any prosecution pursuant to Code Section…

Bottom line This page is a current-reference page for 16-8-5. Theft of services.. Match the facts to the statutory language and verify local charging practice for enhancements or related offenses.…

(a)(1) It shall be unlawful for a person to give a false or fictitious name or address or to give the name or address of another person without that person's…

(a) A person commits the offense of organized retail theft when such person intentionally organizes, plans, finances, directs, manages, or supervises one or more other persons to appropriate property of…

(a) A person commits the offense of theft by extortion when he unlawfully obtains property of or from another person by threatening to: (1) Inflict bodily injury on anyone or…

(a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a person who, with intent to cheat or defraud a retailer, possesses, uses, utters, transfers, makes, alters, counterfeits, or reproduces…

Bottom line This page is a current-reference page for 16-8-18. Entering automobile or other motor vehicle with intent to commit theft or felony.. Match the facts to the statutory language…

(a) A person commits the offense of livestock theft when he unlawfully takes or, being in lawful possession thereof, unlawfully appropriates any livestock of another with the intention of depriving…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term shopping cart means those pushcarts of the type which are commonly provided by grocery stores, drugstores, or other merchant stores or…

(a) For purposes of this Code section, the term vehicle includes, without limitation, any railcar. (b) Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary, a person commits the offense…

(a) For the purposes of this Code section, the term fifth wheel means a device mounted on a truck tractor or similar towing vehicle, including, but not limited to, a…

The provisions of Code Sections 16-7-82, 16-7-84, 16-7-85, and 16-7-86 shall not apply to: (1) Any person authorized to manufacture, possess, transport, distribute, or use a destructive device or detonator…

Bottom line This page is a current-reference page for 16-8-4. Theft by conversion.. Match the facts to the statutory language and verify local charging practice for enhancements or related offenses.…

Bottom line This page is a current-reference page for 16-8-3. Theft by deception.. Match the facts to the statutory language and verify local charging practice for enhancements or related offenses.…

Bottom line Theft by taking is the general theft charge for unlawfully taking property, or unlawfully appropriating property already lawfully possessed, with intent to deprive the owner. O.C.G.A. section 16-8-2.…

As used in this article, the term: (1) Deprive means, without justification: (A) To withhold property of another permanently or temporarily; or (B) To dispose of the property so as…

(a) Any person who possesses, transports, or receives or attempts to possess, transport, or receive any destructive device, explosive, bacteriological weapon, or biological weapon with the knowledge or intent that…

Whenever any egregious litter which is dumped in violation of Code Section 16-7-52 is discovered to contain any article or articles, including but not limited to letters, bills, publications, or…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to place posters, signs, or advertisements: (1) On any public property or building, unless the owner thereof or the occupier as authorized…

(a) A person commits the offense of arson in the first degree when, by means of fire or explosive, he or she knowingly damages or knowingly causes, aids, abets, advises,…

(a) A person commits the offense of arson in the second degree as to any building, vehicle, railroad car, watercraft, aircraft, or other structure not included or described in Code…

(a) A person commits the offense of arson in the third degree when, by means of fire or explosive, he or she knowingly damages or knowingly causes, aids, abets, advises,…

(a) It shall be unlawful: (1) To, with intent to damage, start, cause, or procure another to start or cause a fire in any woodlands, brush, field, or other lands…

As used in this article, the term: (1) Bacteriological weapon or biological weapon means: (A) The following toxic chemicals: (i) O-Alkyl (?C10, including cycloalkyl) alkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr)-phosphonofluoridates;…

The following materials are explosives within the meaning of this article: (1) Acetylides of heavy metals; (2) Aluminum containing polymeric propellant; (3) Aluminum ophorite explosive; (4) Amatex; (5) Amatol; (6)…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to possess, manufacture, transport, distribute, possess with the intent to distribute, or offer to distribute a destructive device except as provided in…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person who is under indictment for or who has been convicted of a felony by a court of this state, any other state,…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute or to offer to distribute a destructive device, explosive, poison gas, or detonator to any person who is under 21…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, possess, transport, distribute, or use a hoax device or replica of a destructive device or detonator with the intent to…

It shall be unlawful for any person to attempt or conspire to commit any offense prohibited by this article. Any person convicted of a violation of this Code section shall…

It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to hinder or obstruct any explosive ordnance technician, law enforcement officer, fire official, emergency management official, animal trained to detect destructive devices,…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term “retail establishment” means an establishment that sells goods or merchandise from a fixed location for direct consumption by a purchaser and…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) “Dwelling” means any building, structure, or portion thereof which is designed or intended for occupan- cy for residential use. (2)…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term “dwelling” shall have the same meaning as provided in Code Sec- tion 16-7-1. (b) A person commits the offense of home…

(a) A person commits the offense of possession of tools for the commission of crime when he has in his pos- session any tool, explosive, or other device commonly used…

(a) A person commits the offense of criminal trespass when he or she intentionally damages any property of another without consent of that other person and the damage thereto is…

(a) A person commits the offense of criminal damage to property in the first degree when he: (1) Knowingly and without authority interferes with any property in a manner so…