The Act requires food processors to maintain food safety plans and conduct tests on their food products before sending them into commerce and allows the Commissioner of Agriculture to define what standards the food safety plans need to comply with. The Act provides for civil and criminal penalties for violating
The Act encourages state departments to examine their water conservation practices; standardizes leak reporting by public water utilities; requires submetering of multifamily, commercial, and industrial construction beginning July 1, 2012; requires high efficiency toilets, urinals, and fixtures in new construction beginning July 1, 2012; provides for the tracking of unused
HB 1106, known as the Georgia Airport Development Authority Law, creates the Georgia Airport Development Authority, which is responsible for studying the location, funding, and development of any new airport within the State of Georgia which is planned to accommodate large aircraft. SB 173 prohibits any city, county, or municipality
The Act adds a new section to the Code regulating the transmission of commercial facsimile (fax) messages. It also provides civil penalty of disconnected telephone service, criminal misdemeanor penalties, and enforcement by the Public Service Commission and local telephone companies.
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The Acts provide for the issuance, execution, and return of inspection warrants and for the practices, procedures, and requirements associated with these warrants. The Acts provide time limits and penalties, identify those inspections not requiring a warrant, make changes in certain exemptions in meat inspection, and specify additional powers for
The Act gives the Public Service Commission discretion to deregulate and detariff telecommunications services where competition for those services exists within the same geographic area.
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The Act allows the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners to grant, in its discretion, teaching licenses without an examination to doctors licensed in another state or foreign country. The Act also requires the Board to investigate a doctor's fitness to practice medicine when an insurer reports, pursuant
The Act regulates the use of automatic telephone dialing and announcing equipment within the state. This equipment can be used only by permit-holders and when prior permission of the recipient is obtained, with certain exceptions, and only between certain hours. The caller must be identified and an automatic disconnection is
The Act provides for the creation of the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council to create standards, to administer and coordinate juvenile services and funds, and to develop, through community initiative, community based programs for delinquent youths. July 1, 1987
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The Act eliminates de novo review of Department of Human Resources actions by courts and restricts the scope of judicial review of that agency's decisions.
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O.C.G.A. 31-7-75.1 provides that the proceeds from the sale of local public hospitals which are sold to "for profit" hospital corporations be placed in an irrevocable interest-bearing account to be used exclusively to pay for indigent medical care. If the amount in the fund
The Act creates a council to review all proposed legislation on occupational licensing or certification. The Act specifies factors the council must consider in evaluating the need for regulation and information that may be required of any applicant group proposing the legislation.
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