O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 30-1-6 (2019)

American Sign Language

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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The General Assembly finds that:

(1) American Sign Language is a fully developed, autonomous, natural language with distinct grammar, syntax, and symbols, and is one of hundreds of signed languages of the world; and

(2) American Sign Language is the fourth most commonly used language in the United States and Canada.

History

(Code 1981, § 30-1-6, enacted by Ga. L. 2007, p. 290, § 2/SB 170.)

Annotations

Editor’s notes. - This Code section formerly pertained to assaulting, beating, harassing, or injuring guide or dogs assisting disabled persons. The former Code

section was based on Code 1981, § 30-1-6, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 665, § 1. For present comparable provisions, see Code Section 16-11-107.1.

CHAPTER 2 GEORGIA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND Sec.

Creation. Purpose. Supervision of industries by Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency; acquisition of property. Superintendents for industries; operation of industries generally; purchase of goods manufactured at industries by state institutions. Articles to be manufactured by industries.

Sec.

Authority of industry superintendents to permit work to be done in homes of workers. Compensation of workers; observance of and payment for state holidays. Promotion, demotion, and layoff of employees; transfer; departure and return of employees. Surplus funds retained as working capital.

Cross references. - Blindness education, screening, and treatment program, § 31-1-23. OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Applicability of federal law to the Factory (now Industries) for the

Blind. - See 1948-49 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 723.