What Article 173³ is and whom it may concern
Article 173³ of the Georgian Administrative Offences Code provides for liability for failure to comply with a lawful demand of a temporary investigative commission of the Parliament of Georgia. The norm addresses a wide circle: the recipient of a demand may be a natural or a legal person — an official, a company or an organisation — to whom the commission turns within the framework of an inquiry. The text of the article defines no closed circle of persons, and that circumstance too is part of the assessment of a case.
The article is built on two conditions of classification: the demand must come from a temporary investigative commission, and it must be lawful. Both conditions carry their own weight: a demand from another body, or an unlawful demand, is not punishable under this article — at least, that is how the wording of the norm plainly reads.
The fine: fifty times the minimum labour remuneration
The sanction is written as follows: a fine of fifty minimum amounts of labour remuneration. Note — not a single exact figure in lari appears in the article. That is deliberate: the price of the fine is pegged to the minimum labour remuneration, and its concrete value in lari depends on the rules that define that minimum. For that reason this page does not state an amount in lari — and that is a mark of precision, not a defect.
What this means practically: establishing the real size of the fine in your case requires a calculation, made under the norms in force at the material time. If a concrete figure is stated in the penalty document, verifying the basis of its calculation is a regular checkpoint of the case.