What Article 139⁵ regulates
Article 139⁵ of the Code of Administrative Offences of Georgia establishes administrative liability for a carrier company's failure to fulfil an obligation established by the Georgian Law on the Legal Status of Foreigners and Stateless Persons. The norm concerns organisations involved in the carriage of persons: a carrier company that transports foreigners or stateless persons is itself responsible for the performance of its transport and documentary obligations. The purpose of the law is clear — the state receives information about persons entering the country and being carried across it, and the carrier is the link that ensures the completeness of that information. The norm thus embraces all three principal modes of carriage — land, sea and air — and attaches a separate fine to each of them.