TITLE 43 PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES

Section 3. Accountants, 43-3-1 through 43-3-38.

43-3-23. Adjudicative hearings before board.

1. The board may initiate proceedings under this chapter either on its own motion or on the complaint of any person.
2. Notice, rules of procedure, right to review, and any other matters arising with respect to all adjudicative hearings conducted by the board shall be determined in accordance with Chapter 13 of Title 50, the "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act."
3. Before the board shall revoke or suspend a license, a certificate, or substantial equivalency practice privileges, it shall provide for a hearing for the holder of such license, certificate, or practice privileges in accordance with Chapter 13 of Title 50, the "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act." Any person who has exhausted all administrative remedies available within this chapter and who is aggrieved by a final decision in a contested case shall be entitled to judicial review in accordance with Chapter 13 of Title 50.
4. Initial judicial review of a final decision of the board shall be held solely in the superior court of the county of domicile of the State Accounting Office.

(Code 1933, § 84-213, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 1063, § 1; Code 1981, §43-3-30; Ga. L. 2008, p. 1112, § 7/HB 1055; Code 1981, §43-3-23, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2014, p. 136, § 1-2/HB 291.)

The 2014 amendment, effective July 1, 2014, redesignated former Code Section 43-3-30 as present Code Section 43-3-23; in subsection (c), substituted the present provisions of the first sentence for the former provisions, which read: "Before the board shall revoke or suspend a permit, certificate, registration, or practice privilege, it shall provide for a hearing for the holder of such permit, certificate, registration, or practice privilege in accordance with Chapter 13 of Title 50, the 'Georgia Administrative Procedure Act.'", and substituted "shall be entitled" for "is entitled" in the second sentence; and added subsection (d).