Section 16-6-22. Incest

   (a) A person commits the offense of incest when such person engages in sexual intercourse or sodomy, as such term is defined in Code Section 16-6-2, with a person whom he or she knows he or she is related to either by blood or by marriage as follows:

   (1) Father and child or stepchild;

   (2) Mother and child or stepchild;

   (3) Siblings of the whole blood or of the half blood;

   (4) Grandparent and grandchild;

   (5) Aunt and niece or nephew; or

   (6) Uncle and niece or nephew.

(b) A person convicted of the offense of incest shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than ten nor more than 30 years; provided, however, that any person convicted of the offense of incest under this subsection with a child under the age of 14 years shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than 25 nor more than 50 years. Any person convicted under this Code section of the offense of incest shall, in addition, be subject to the sentencing and punishment provisions of Code Section 17-10-6.2.

Laws 1833, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 814; Code 1863, § 4418; Code 1868, § 4459; Code 1873, § 4533; Code 1882, § 4533; Ga. L. 1886, p. 30, § 1; Penal Code 1895, § 380; Penal Code 1910, § 371; Ga. L. 1916, p. 51, § 1; Code 1933, § 26-5701; Code 1933, § 26-2006, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1; Ga. L. 2006, p. 379, § 14/HB 1059; Ga. L. 2010, p. 168, § 3/HB 571.