O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 34-1-5 (2019)

‘‘Multiracial’’ classification required on forms

✓ 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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(a) As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘multiracial’’ means having parents of different races.

(b) All written forms, applications, questionnaires, and other written documents or materials produced by or for or used by any person, firm, association, or corporation conducting business within this state requiring the employment of labor which request information on the racial or ethnic identification of an employee and which contain a list of racial and ethnic classifications from which such employee must select one shall include among their choices the classification ‘‘multiracial.’’

(c) No such written document or computer software described in subsection (b) of this Code section shall bear the designation ‘‘other’’ as a racial or ethnic classification after July 1, 1994, unless such document was printed and in stock before July 1, 1994.

(d) The failure of any person, firm, or corporation to comply with the provisions of this Code section shall not be construed to create any civil cause of action.

History

(Code 1981, § 34-1-5, enacted by Ga. L. 1994, p. 1360, § 3; Ga. L. 1998, p. 128, § 34.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Multiracial classification on forms, §§ 20-2-2041,

Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 1994, p. 1360, § 4, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the provisions of the Act apply to those forms, applications, questionnaires, and other written documents printed or typed or otherwise originating after July 1, 1994; provided, however, that all documents printed and in stock on July