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Volume 11, Issue 1 (Fall 1994)

SOCIAL SERVICES Programs and Protection for Children and Youth: Provide for Fingerprint Records Check and Preliminary Records Check for Foster Parents; Provide for Powers of the Department of Human Resources Regarding Programs for Children

The Act provides for compensation to agencies which recruit, educate, or train potential adoptive or foster parents. The Act also provides that only a preliminary records check determination is required before a licensed child-placing agency may place a child in a foster care home, while a satisfactory fingerprint records check

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PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons: Require Real Estate Brokers to Pay Commission Only to Licensees Who Have Assigned Their License to the Broker's Firm; Ensure a Qualified Broker Will Be Responsible in All Real Estate Busi...

The Act provides procedures for ensuring that real estate brokerage firms will not pay compensation to a licensed broker unless the broker is assigned to the firm prior to the transaction. The Act requires each brokerage firm to be managed by a real estate broker or qualifying real estate broker

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PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES Real Estate Appraisers: Authorize Board of Appraisers to Issue Temporary Practice Permits for a Single Federally Related Transaction; Prohibit Appraisers from Giving Oral Appraisals of Federally Related Transaction; Prohibit ...

The Act authorizes the Georgia Board of Real Estate Appraisers (the Board) to issue temporary practice permits to appraisers classified outside the state. This authorization brings Georgia legislation in line with federal regulations. The Act further amends the original code section by adding two new violations to the list of

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LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Workers' Compensation: Provide Employers Three Methods for Providing Medical Care for Employees; Delete Requirement that Board Send Notice of Claim to All Parties; Extend Time for Hearing Following Notice; Alter Appellat...

The Act defines when the use of alcohol or a controlled substance will bar recovery by an injury employee. The Act gives the Workers' Compensation Board greater ability to fine one who commits fraud, deletes the requirement that the Board send notice of a claim to the parties, amends

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COURTS Juvenile Proceedings, Parental Rights: Provide that the Superior Court Shall Have Exclusive Jurisdiction over Matters Concerning Children Thirteen to Seventeen Years of Age Who are Alleged to Have Committed Certain Violent Felonies; Provide tha...

The Act provides measures and procedures to enhance school safety and changes the penalty provisions relating to the crimes of aggravated assault and aggravated battery when these crimes are committed against a student or teacher or other school personnel within a school safety zone. The Act also provides that juvenile

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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Sentence and Punishment: Provide that Persons Who are Convicted of Certain Serious Violent Felonies Shall Serve Minimum Prison Sentences and Other Court Ordered Sentences in Their Entirety; Provide that a Person Who Has Been Convicte...

The Sentence Reform Act of 1994 provides for a minimum sentence of ten years for persons convicted for the first time of serious violent felonies with the sentence to be served in its entirety. Furthermore, the Act provides that when the court orders sentences for first-time conviction of serious violent

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COMMERCE AND TRADE Selling and Other Trade Practices: Provide it Shall Be Unlawful for Any Person to Sell or Offer for Sale Any Ticket of Admission to Any Entertainment Event for a Price in Excess of the Price Printed on the Ticket and Provide for Serv...

The Act prohibits selling or offering to sell any ticket to certain sporting events for a price in excess of the price printed on the ticket. However, the Act provides that authorized ticket agents may charge a service charge which does not exceed three dollars. In addition, the Act provides

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COURTS Magistrate Courts: Provide for an Optional No Contest Bond Forfeiture Procedure for Misdemeanor Bad Check Violations as a Final Disposition and Provide for Bench Warrants When Forfeiture Is Not Final Disposition

The Act provides that chief magistrates may establish no contest cash bond schedules, allows persons arrested or accused of misdemeanor bad check violations to post a no contest cash bond, and deems failure to appear for trial to be a guilty plea and forfeiture of the bond, unless the court

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