O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 48-11-20 (2019)

Venue as to violations of chapter; commissioner’s certificate as prima-facie evidence

✓ 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 failure to do any act required by this chapter shall be deemed an act committed in part at the office of the commissioner in Atlanta. The certificate of the commissioner to the effect that any act required by this chapter has not been done shall be prima-facie evidence that the act has not been done.

History

Ga. L. 1955, p. 268, § 23; Code 1933, § 91A-5521, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2; Ga. L. 2020, p. 257, § 2/SB 375.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2020, p. 257, § 2/SB 375, reenacted this Code section without change.

Law reviews. For note discussing problems with venue in Georgia, and proposing statutory revisions to improve the resolution of venue questions, see 9 Ga. St. B.J. 254 (1972).