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2018 Georgia Code 43-14-1 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 43 PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES

Section 14. Electrical Contractors, Plumbers, Conditioned Air Contractors, Low-voltage Contractors, and Utility Contractors, 43-14-1 through 43-14-18.

ARTICLE 4 DENTAL ASSISTANTS

43-14-1. Declaration of purpose.

This chapter is enacted for the purpose of safeguarding homeowners, other property owners, tenants, and the general public against faulty, inadequate, inefficient, or unsafe electrical, plumbing, low-voltage wiring, utility contracting, or conditioned air installations. The practice of electrical contracting, plumbing contracting, installing, or repairing, low-voltage contracting, utility contracting, and conditioned air contracting are declared to be businesses or professions affecting the public interest; and this chapter shall be liberally construed so as to accomplish the purposes stated in this Code section.

(Ga. L. 1949, p. 1622, § 1; Ga. L. 1968, p. 308, § 1; Ga. L. 1971, p. 583, § 2; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1299, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 424, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 1129, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1756, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Waller v. State Constr. Indus. Licensing Bd., 250 Ga. 529, 299 S.E.2d 554 (1983); Bowers v. Howell, 203 Ga. App. 636, 417 S.E.2d 392 (1992).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 43-14-1

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Waller v. State Constr. Indus. Licensing Bd., 299 S.E.2d 554 (Ga. 1983).

Cited 5 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jan 25, 1983 | 250 Ga. 529

...elsewhere in the state without incurring the costs of state-wide licensing. Under the new law, localities are not permitted to impose qualifications as to competence upon plumbers, although business licenses may be required as revenue measures. OCGA § 43-14-13 (Code Ann....
...§ 84-3814), Ops. Att'y. Gen. U80-31. Hence, the Wallers' *530 practice now is limited to those localities specified in their state-issued "area licenses." Also challenged are the broad exemptions from the licensing requirements extended by OCGA §§ 43-14-15 and 43-14-16 (Code Ann....
...d plumber who has no familiarity with the state plumbing code. In this, the classification fails to relate rationally to the legislative purpose of protecting persons from plumbing practices that are "faulty, inadequate, inefficient or unsafe," OCGA § 43-14-1 (Code Ann....