Georgia HB1606 creates a crime for disrupting a worship service, with penalties including fines and imprisonment.
Georgia HB1606 amends the state's criminal code to establish the offense of disrupting a worship service. The bill defines a worship service as an assemblage for religious worship and a church as any religious property. It prohibits entering a church or its property to disrupt a service, obstructing access, engaging in unlawful protests, riots, disorderly conduct, or harassment during a service. Penalties for conviction include fines up to $5,000, imprisonment up to five years, or both. The law aims to protect the right to religious worship while balancing the right to protest.
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