What Article 152² of the Administrative Offences Code covers
Article 152² of the Code of Administrative Offences of Georgia protects the ability of citizens to use public places. The norm punishes the unauthorised restriction of the use of public places — situations where someone, arbitrarily and without the corresponding right, limits the ability of others to use such a place. In practice this means blocking, obstructing or otherwise restricting access to a part of a street, an avenue, a park or another public space.
The article is built of two parts: the first governs the very fact of the arbitrary restriction, and the second its non-correction within a fixed period after the fine. This structure matters practically: if the breach is not remedied after the first fine, the sanction rises sharply.
The sanction under the first part
Under the first part, the unauthorised restriction of the use of public places entails a fine of 500 GEL for a physical person and 2,000 GEL for a legal person. The sanction is differentiated by the type of person, so the qualification of the case must establish precisely against whom it is applied.
The aggravating consequence of non-correction
The second part is considerably stricter: where the breach covered by the first part is not corrected within 20 days of the fine, the physical person is fined 3,000 GEL and the legal person 4,000 GEL. Twenty days is thus the window within which the consequence of the breach must be removed — the public place must again become accessible. If that does not happen, the fine multiplies.
The practical conclusion is simple: from the very first fine, every episode of blocking a public place must be treated as a separate matter. Removing the consequence and lifting the restriction matters more than paying the fine, because it is precisely the non-correction that switches the case to the second, strict part.