Unlawful Practices Punishable by Civil Fine

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  2. Georgia Code
  3. Public Officers and Employees
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  6. Unlawful Practices Punishable by Civil Fine

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  1. It shall be an unlawful practice for a person willfully to:
    1. Make public with respect to a particular employer or person without the employer's or person's consent information obtained by the administrator or the administrator's employees pursuant to their authority under Code Section 45-19-41, except as shall reasonably be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article;
    2. Retaliate or discriminate in any manner against a person because the person has opposed a practice declared unlawful by this article or because the person has made a charge, filed a complaint, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in any investigation, proceeding, or hearing concerning an unlawful practice under this article;
    3. Aid, abet, incite, compel, or coerce a person to engage in any of the acts or practices declared unlawful by this article;
    4. Obstruct or prevent a person from complying with this article or with any order issued under this article;
    5. Resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with the administrator or any of his representatives, employees, or with a special master in the lawful performance of duty under this article; provided, however, that it shall not be a violation of this article for anyone to challenge or resist any action by the administrator or any of his employees or by a special master when there is a good faith belief that the administrator is, or his employees are, or the special master is acting unlawfully or acting in excess of statutory authority; or
    6. Initiate frivolous and unwarranted charges of discrimination against a public employer.
  2. A violation of this Code section shall not be deemed a crime; but any person who willfully violates this Code section may be punished by a civil fine not to exceed $1,000.00.

(Ga. L. 1978, p. 859, § 24; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1097, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 45; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 45.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Recovery of damages as remedy for wrongful discrimination under state or local civil rights provisions, 85 A.L.R.3d 351.

Availability and scope of punitive damages under state employment discrimination law, 81 A.L.R.5th 367.


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