Legislation pending in the Georgia state legislature would make it illegal for anyone to “mutilate, deface, defile, or abuse contemptuously any publicly owned monument,” including those honoring the Confederate States of America.
The proposal, House Bill 91, mandates that publicly owned monuments located on public property be kept on display in a prominent place; concealing monuments would be a misdemeanor. And, anyone who “damages, destroys, or loses a monument or that takes or removes a monument without replacing it” would be on the hook for any repair costs.