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

O.C.G.A. § 38-2-1145 (2019)

Severability

✓ 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 provisions of this article are hereby declared to be severable, and if any provision of this article or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance is declared invalid for any reason, such declaration shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this article.

History

Code 1981, § 38-2-1145, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98.

CHAPTER 3 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Sec.

Article 1 General Provisions Sec.

Short title. Policy and purpose. Definitions. Enforcement. Injunction; who may obtain; remedy at law irrelevant. Liberality of construction. (See Editor’s notes.) Penalty for violation.

Article 2 Organization and Administration

Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency created; director; staff; offices; director’s duties; disaster coordinator.

Annotations

Cross references. - Tax credit for disaster assistance funds received, § 48-7-29.4.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Status of Stone Mountain Memorial Association. - Stone Mountain Memorial Association cannot properly be construed to be a "state agency" for the purposes of Ga. L. 1951, p. 224.

Delegation of responsibilities. - Governor and the director of civil defense (now emergency management) may delegate responsibilities with respect to civil defense. 1962 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 29.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR. - Judicial decisions involving rationing, 155 A.L.R. 1475.

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ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

Law reviews. - For article, "Is Georgia Prepared for a Health Pandemic? Legal Issues Regarding Emergency Preparedness and Declaration of Emergency Health Pandemic in Georgia," see 15 (No. 6) Ga. St. B.J. 30 (2010).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Lowering of minimum age for participation in rescue operations. - There are no legal bars to amending rules and regulations of the Civil Defense Division (now Emergency Management Division), to lower minimum age for participating in Georgia civil defense (now emergency management) rescue operations from 18 to 16. 1981 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 81-73.