2025 Georgia Codes – Page 106

Any person, either on his or her own account or for others, who with fraudulent intent shall buy cotton, corn,
rice, crude turpentine, spirits of turpentine, rosin, pitch, tar, timber, pulpwood, Christmas trees, pine needles,
horticultural crops, poultry and poultry products, cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, ratites, horses, mules, pecans,
peaches, apples, watermelons, cantaloupes, or other products or chattels and fail or refuse to pay therefor
within 20 days following receipt of such products or chattels or by such other payment due date explicitly
stated in a written contract agreed to by the buyer and seller, whichever is later, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor; except that if the value of the products or chattels exceeded $500.00 such person shall be guilty of a
felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned for not less than one year nor more than five years.

(a) For purposes of this Code section, the term “foreclosure fraud” shall include any of the following: know-
ingly or willfully representing that moneys provided to or on behalf of a debtor, as defined in Code Section

(a) A person commits the crime of misrepresenting the origin or ownership of timber or agricultural com-
modities when, in the course of a sale, attempted sale, delivery, or other completed or attempted transaction
regarding timber or agricultural commodities, he or she knowingly, willfully, and with criminal intent to
defraud makes a false statement or knowingly, willfully, and with criminal intent to defraud causes a false
statement to be made with regard to any specific ownership of the timber or agricultural commodities or with
regard to the location or ownership of the land where the timber was cut or the agricultural commodities
were harvested.
(b) Misrepresenting the origin of timber or agricultural commodities shall be punished, upon conviction,
as for a misdemeanor; except that if the property which was the subject of the misrepresentation exceeded
$500.00 in value, it shall be a felony offense punishable upon conviction by a sentence of imprisonment of
not less than one year and not exceeding five years.