Bill Text: GA HB1093 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Crimes and offenses; removal of shopping carts and required posting of Code section in stores and markets; change provisions
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-04-16 - Effective Date [HB1093 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-HB1093-Introduced.html
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House
Bill 1093 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE)
By:
Representatives Braddock of the
19th,
Jacobs of the
80th,
Coomer of the
14th,
Knight of the
126th,
Clark of the
98th,
and others
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to theft, so as to change provisions relating to removal of
shopping carts and the required posting of the Code section in stores and
markets; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to
repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
1 of Chapter 8 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to theft, is amended by revising Code Section 16-8-21, relating to removal or
abandonment of shopping carts, as follows:
"16-8-21.
(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 markets for the use of the public in transporting commodities
in stores and markets and incidentally from the store to a place outside the
store.
(b)
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove a shopping cart from the
premises,
posted as provided in subsection (d) of this Code
section, of the owner of such shopping
cart without the consent, given at the time of such removal, of the owner or of
his or
her agent, servant, or employee. For the
purpose of this Code section, the premises shall include all the parking area
set aside by the owner or on behalf of the owner for the parking of cars for the
convenience of the patrons of the owner.
(c)
It shall be unlawful for any person to abandon a shopping cart upon any public
street, sidewalk, way, or parking lot other than a parking lot on the premises
of the owner.
(d)
The owner
of the store in which the shopping cart is used shall post in at least three
prominent places in his store and at each exit therefrom a printed copy of this
Code section, which copy shall be printed in type no smaller than 12
points.
(e)
Any person who violates
subsection
(b) or (c) of this Code section shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its
becoming law without such approval.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.