What Article 142 actually covers
Article 142 of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia deals with the manufacture and use of radio transmitting devices without a permit. The provision is short, which is precisely why it repays careful reading: the offence is built on two acts — making the device and using it — carried out where the permit the activity requires does not exist. If a report has been drawn up against you under this article, the argument will usually turn on whether the specific device had a lawful basis, and on how your own conduct relates to that basis.
In practice the article reaches very different people. A radio amateur who assembled a transmitter at home, a small business that installed a repeater at its premises, a technician who merely operated somebody else's equipment — all three can find the same article cited against them, although the facts are not alike. That is why the factual description matters more here than the legal label: it decides whether the question of liability arises against you at all.
The sanction the law provides
Article 142 provides for a fine of between 10 and 30 minimum amounts of labour remuneration, together with confiscation of the radio transmitting device. Both limbs matter, and they have to be read together rather than separately.
- the fine is not expressed in lari in the article at all — it is set as a multiple of the minimum amount of labour remuneration, from 10 to 30;
- it is a range and not a fixed figure, so there is room between the lower and the upper limit;
- the fine is accompanied by confiscation of the device, which the article sets out as a consequence attaching to the penalty.
The article names no sum in lari. If someone quotes you a precise figure, that figure does not come from Article 142 — it follows from the conversion rule that sits outside this provision. On this page we state what the article itself states, and nothing beyond it.