In addition, the corporation is authorized to seize the machines in question and assess the master license and permit fees as required by law and to assess the costs of such seizure to the owner or operator of the machines;
(Code 1981, §48-17-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 1521, § 3; Code 1981, §50-27-73, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2013, p. 37, § 1-1/HB 487; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 48/HB 79; Ga. L. 2015, p. 39, § 4/SB 190.)
The 2013 amendments. The first 2013 amendment, effective April 10, 2013, redesignated former Code Section 48-17-4 as present Code Section 50-27-73; throughout this Code section, substituted "corporation" for "commissioner" and substituted "article" for "chapter"; inserted ", location owner, or location operator" twice in subsection (a); substituted "corporation's agents of his or her place" for "commissioner of his place" in subsection (b); in paragraph (c)(2), substituted "provide requested information or answer a question, intentionally" for "answer a question or has intentionally", inserted "or her", and added ", or omitted any material or requested information"; substituted "applicant allows" for "applicant that allows" near the beginning of paragraph (c)(4); substituted "One thousand dollars" for "One hundred and fifty dollars" in subparagraph (c)(4)(A); substituted "Twenty-five thousand dollars" for "One thousand dollars" in subparagraph (c)(4)(B); deleted "or" at the end of the concluding paragraph of paragraph (c)(4); added paragraphs (c)(6) and (c)(7); and added subsection (e). The second 2013 amendment, effective April 24, 2013, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted "applicant allows" for "applicant that allows" in the introductory language of paragraph (c)(4).
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted the present provisions of subsection (a) for the former provisions, which read: "The corporation shall not renew a master, location owner, or location operator license for a business under this article and shall suspend for any period of time or cancel a master, location owner, or location operator license if the corporation finds that the applicant or licensee is indebted to the state for any fees, costs, penalties, or delinquent fees."; in subsection (b), substituted "person" for "business" preceding "under this article" near the beginning, and added the proviso at the end; in subsection (c), inserted "manufacturer, distributor, or" twice in the introductory language, and, in the first sentence of paragraph (4), inserted "master" near the beginning and substituted "person that owns" for "person who owns" near the middle; and substituted the present provisions of subsection (e) for the former provisions, which read: "The corporation shall not issue any new Class B master licenses until one year after it certifies that the Class B accounting terminal authorized by Code Section 50-27-101 is implemented; provided, however, the corporation shall be permitted to renew Class B master licenses at any time."
Editor's notes.- Ga. L. 2013, p. 37, § 3-1/HB 487, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that: "(b) If any section of this Act is determined to be unconstitutional by a final decision of an appellate court of competent jurisdiction or by the trial court of competent jurisdiction if no appeal is made, with the exception of subsection (g) of Code Section 50-27-78 and Section 2-1 of this Act, this Act shall stand repealed by operation of law.
"(c) This Act is not intended to and shall not be construed to affect the legality of the repair, transport, possession, or use of otherwise prohibited gambling devices on maritime vessels within the jurisdiction of the State of Georgia. To the extent that such repair, transport, possession, or use was lawful prior to the enactment of this Act, it shall not be made illegal by this Act; and to the extent that such repair, transport, possession, or use was prohibited prior to the enactment of this Act, it shall remain prohibited." As of July 2020, no such decision has been issued.