History. Code 1933, § 26-1506, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 434, § 1; Ga. L. 2006, p. 96, § 2/HB 1490; Ga. L. 2018, p. 550, § 4-2/SB 407.
The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, added subsection (a); redesignated former subsections (a) through (c) as present subsections (b) through (d), respectively; designated the existing provisions of subsection (c) as paragraph (c)(1), and, in paragraph (c)(1), inserted “, other than a firearm,” near the middle, inserted “guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be” in the middle, and inserted “year” near the end; added paragraph (c)(2); and, in subsection (d), substituted “shall not apply to those cases or instances when” for “does not apply to those cases or instances where” near the beginning, substituted “subsection (b)” for “subsection (a)” near the middle, and substituted “its duly” for “his duly” in the middle.
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For article on the 2018 amendment of this Code section, see 35 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 45 (2018).
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