This article, being for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes of this article.
(Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 302, § 35; Code 1933, § 95A-1272, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 94, § 32.)