Georgia § 7-1-1019 - Criminal penalties.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 7-1-1019 — Criminal penalties., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 7-1-1019. Criminal penalties.
Any person and the several members, officers, directors, agents, and employees thereof who: Shall violate the provisions of subsection (a) or (a.1) of Code Section 7-1-1002, by the willful transaction of a mortgage business without a license or exemption, shall be guilty of a felony punishable as provided in Code Section 7-1-845; or Shall violate any of the other provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or by both fine and imprisonment. (Code 1981, § 7-1-1019 , enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 543, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 7; Ga. L. 1999, p. 674, § 40; Ga. L. 2009, p. 252, § 1/HB 312; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 7/HB 90.)
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