O.C.G.A. § 29-11-42 (2019)
Application
(a) This chapter shall apply to guardianship proceedings and conservatorship proceedings begun on or after July 1, 2016.
(b) Articles 1, 3, and 4 of this chapter and Code Sections 29-11-40 and 29-11-41 shall apply to proceedings begun before July 1, 2016, regardless of whether a guardianship order or conservatorship order has been issued.
History
(Code 1981, § 29-11-42, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 563, § 1/HB 954.)
Annotations
Cross references. - Continuation of trusts for benefit of schools for the blind and the deaf, § 20-2-18. Special education services for children with physical, mental, or emotional disabilities, § 20-2-152. Use of school buses to provide transportation for persons with disabilities, § 20-2-1074. Aid to disabled or illiterate in voter registration process, § 21-2-220. Lending of voting assistance to the physically disabled, § 21-2-409. Treatment and rehabilitation of spinal cord disabled
persons, § 31-18-1 et seq. Discrimination against persons with disabilities in employment, § 34-6A-1 et seq. Special license plates for disabled veterans, § 40-2-68 et seq. Special license plates for disabled persons generally, § 40-2-74. Community service by certain offenders as live-in attendants for disabled persons, § 42-8-72. Regulation of business of hearing aid dealers and dispensers, § 43-20-1 et seq. Licensing of occupational therapists, § 43-28-1 et seq.
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