O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-35-6.1 (2019)

Signs for privately owned businesses

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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 municipality shall be prohibited from restricting the use of any language other than English on signs for privately owned businesses. This Code section shall not restrict the municipality’s right to enact any other restrictions on signs.

History

Code 1981, § 41-1-10, enacted by Ga. L. 2001, p. 1196, § 5.1; Code 1981, § 36-35-6.1, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2002, p. 415, § 41.

Annotations

Cross references. - English designated as official language, § 50-3-100.

Editor’s notes. - By resolution (Ga. L. 1986, p. 529), the General Assembly designated the English language as the official language of the State of Georgia.