Georgia § 10-1-493 - Penalty for failing to register.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 10-1-493 — Penalty for failing to register., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 10-1-493. Penalty for failing to register.
Any person, firm, partnership, or corporation carrying on any trade or business subject to registration under Code Section 10-1-490 without filing such registration as required by Code Section 10-1-490 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor but shall suffer no other or further penalty or forfeiture on account of any such failure to register, except costs as provided in Code Section 10-1-491. (Ga. L. 1929, p. 233, § 5; Code 1933, § 106-9906; Ga. L. 1937, p. 804, § 3.)
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