Functions, Powers, and Responsibilities

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The council is vested with the following functions, powers, and responsibilities:

  1. To make all the necessary rules and regulations to carry out this article;
  2. To cooperate with and secure the cooperation of every department, agency, or instrumentality of the state government or its political subdivisions in furtherance of the purposes of this article;
  3. To approve schools and to prescribe minimum qualifications for instructors at approved schools;
  4. To issue a certification to any municipal court judge satisfactorily complying with an approved training program established;
  5. To do any and all things necessary or convenient to enable it wholly and adequately to perform its duties and to exercise the power granted to it; and
  6. To prescribe, by rules and regulations, the minimum requirements for curricula and standards composing the initial in-service, advanced, specialized, and continuing training courses for certification.

(Code 1981, §36-32-26, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 882, § 2.)


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