Perjury

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Military, Emergency Management, and Veterans Affairs
4. Military Affairs
5. Code of Military Justice
6. Punitive Provisions
7. Perjury

Any person subject to this article is guilty of perjury and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct who in a judicial proceeding or in a course of justice willfully and corruptly:

1. Upon a lawful oath or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, gives any false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry; or
2. In any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury, subscribes any false statement material to the issue or matter of inquiry.

(Code 1981, §38-2-1131, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98.)

Cross references.

- Statute of limitations, § 38-2-437.

U.S. Code.

- For similar provision in Uniform Code of Military Justice, see 10 U.S.C. § 931.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 53A Am. Jur. 2d, Military, and Civil Defense, § 216. 60A Am. Jur. 2d, Perjury, § 1 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 70 C.J.S., Perjury, § 1 et seq.

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