O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-19-24 (2019)

Commission on Equal Opportunity created; administrator; assignment of commission to Governor for administrative purposes

✓ 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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There is created the Commission on Equal Opportunity. The Governor shall appoint an administrator of the Commission on Equal Opportunity who shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor. The Commission on Equal Opportunity shall be attached to the office of the Governor for administrative purposes only. The Commission on Equal Opportunity shall have an Equal Employment Division to assist the administrator in carrying out the provisions of this article.

History

(Ga. L. 1978, p. 859, § 10; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1097, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 1828, § 3.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Georgia Dep’t of Human Resources v. Montgomery, 248 Ga. 465, 284 S.E.2d 263 (1981).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, §§ 42, 87 et seq.

C.J.S. - 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 18.