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Timestamp: 2020-02-24 18:50:27
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 16', '§ 16', '§1', '§1', '§4', '§3', '§ 16']

§ 16-5-23.1. Battery.
(j) A person who is an employee, agent, or volunteer at any facility licensed or required to be licensed under Code Section 31-7-3, relating to long-term care facilities, or Code Section 31-7-12.2, relating to assisted living communities, or Code Section 31-7-12, relating to personal care homes, or who is required to be licensed pursuant to Code Section 31-7-151 or 31-7-173, relating to home health care and hospices, who commits the offense of battery against a person who is admitted to or receiving services from such facility, person, or entity shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years, or a fine of not more than $2,000.00, or both.
(k) Any person who commits the offense of battery against a sports official while such sports official is officiating an amateur contest or while such sports official is on or exiting the property where he or she will officiate or has completed officiating an amateur contest shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished for a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature. For purposes of this Code section, the term 'sports official' means any person who officiates, umpires, or referees an amateur contest at the collegiate, elementary or secondary school, or recreational level.
Cite as OCGA § 16-5-23.1
History. Amended by 2019 Ga. Laws 31, §1, eff. 4/18/2019.
Amended by 2016 Ga. Laws 518, §1, eff. 7/1/2016.
Amended by 2011 Ga. Laws 56, §4, eff. 7/1/2011.
Amended by 2004 Ga. Laws 560, §3, eff. 7/1/2004.
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