Penalties for Delivering Cotton Without Production of Receipt or Failing to Cancel Receipt

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Commerce and Trade
  4. Warehousemen
  5. State Warehouse Commissioner; Cotton Warehousing
  6. Storage of Cotton
  7. Penalties for Delivering Cotton Without Production of Receipt or Failing to Cancel Receipt

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Any manager, employee, agent, officer, or other person who shall deliver cotton from a warehouse under this article, except upon the production of the receipt therefor, or who shall fail to mark such receipt "canceled" on the delivery of the cotton shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000.00, or imprisonment for not more than five years in the state penitentiary, or both, in the discretion of the court.

(Ga. L. 1918, p. 246, § 18; Code 1933, § 5-9902.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 93 C.J.S., Warehousemen and Safe Depositaries, § 173.


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