(Code 1933, § 88-606, enacted by Ga. L. 1976, p. 953, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 1213, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1445, § 16; Ga. L. 1999, p. 860, § 2; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1324, § 1-7; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 3-1/HB 228; Ga. L. 2010, p. 838, § 10/SB 388.)
The 2010 amendment, effective June 3, 2010, inserted "in print or electronically" in the first sentence of subsection (a).
Code Commission notes.- Ga. L. 1999, p. 860, § 2, not codified by the General Assembly, provided that subsection (b.1) becomes effective only when funds are specifically appropriated for the purposes of subsection (b.1) in an Appropriations Act making specific reference to this Act. Funds were not appropriated in the 1999, 2000, or 2001 session. The contingent enactment of subsection (b.1) has been treated as superseded by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1324, § 1-7, which rewrote this article.
Editor's notes.- Ga. L. 1993, p. 1445, § 18.1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "Nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal any provision of Chapter 5 of Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the 'Community Services Act for the Mentally Retarded.' "
Ga. L. 1993, p. 1445, § 19, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1994; provided, however, that provisions relating to the establishment of regional and community service board boundaries and the appointments of regional boards and community service boards shall become effective on July 1, 1993, or upon whatever date is stipulated in the Act and provided, further, that the provisions authorizing a county board of health to agree to serve as the lead county board of health for only that county shall become effective upon the approval of this Act by the Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval." The Act was approved by the Governor on April 27, 1993.
Ga. L. 1993, p. 1445, which amends this Code section, provides, in § 19.1, not codified by the General Assembly, that the amendment is repealed on June 30, 1999; however, Ga. L. 1998, p. 870, § 1, struck § 19.1 of Ga. L. 1993, p. 1445, which would have repealed the 1993 amendment to this Code section.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Property interest of participants in supportive living program.
- Rules and regulations of state and local supportive living program give participants in the program a property interest subject to due process including an evidentiary hearing prior to termination from the program. Fields v. Pittman, 571 F. Supp. 32 (N.D. Ga. 1983).