Representatives
Ralston of the 7th and Cox of the 102nd move to amend the Committee on Rules
substitute to SB 203 by inserting "to remove the penalties for failure to remit
funds;" after "state;" on line 15 on page 1.
By
adding a new section to read as follows:
"SECTION
4.1.
Chapter
21A of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to judicial
accounting, is amended by repealing Code Section 15-21A-8, relating to penalties
for failure to remit funds, which reads as follows:
'15-21A-8.
Any
clerk of court or any other officer or agent receiving any funds subject to this
chapter who knowingly fails to pay over any such funds to the authority as
required by this chapter, after receiving notice from the authority that such
funds are delinquent, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, except that if the
amount of funds knowingly not paid over is $10,000.00 or more then such person
shall be guilty of a felony and punished by imprisonment for not less than one
nor more than ten years. The offense created by this Code section shall not
merge with any other
offense.'"
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