O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-12-101 (2019)

Duties; use of numbers by Secretary of State for election ballots

✓ 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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(a) The Constitutional Amendments Publication Board shall assign to each proposed constitutional amendment and proposed new Constitution a number, which shall be used for the purpose of publishing the amendments and the Constitution.

(b) The same number which shall be assigned by the board to each proposed amendment and new Constitution shall also be used by the Secretary of State when the Secretary of State shall determine the form of the ballot for each general election in which such proposals shall be submitted to the electors for ratification or rejection.

(c) The board shall also assign to each proposed constitutional amendment a short title or heading of no more than 15 words that shall describe in summary form the substance of the proposal. The Secretary of State shall cause such short title or heading to be printed in boldface at the beginning of each proposed constitutional amendment that appears on the ballot.

History

Ga. L. 1981, p. 116, § 1; Ga. L. 2001, p. 269, § 27; Ga. L. 2002, p. 415, § 50.

Annotations

Cross references. Manner of amending Constitution of Georgia, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. X, Sec. I. Preparation, printing and publicizing of

summary of general amendments to Constitution of Georgia, § 21-2-4. Law reviews. For note on the 2001 amendment to this Code section, see 18 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 96 (2001).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 16 Am. Jur. 2d, Constitutional Law, § 32.

C.J.S. 16 C.J.S., Constitutional Law, § 26 et seq.

ARTICLE 7 GEORGIA HALL OF FAME COMMISSION 50-12-110 through 50-12-112. [Reserved]. History. Ga. L. 1974, p. 1636; repealed by Ga. L. 2001, p. 873, § 26, effective July 1, 2001. Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2001, p. 873, § 26 repealed and

reserved this article, effective July 1, 2001.

ARTICLE 8 GEORGIA COMMISSION ON THE HOLOCAUST Editor’s notes. Former Code Section 50-12-137 repealed the Code sections formerly codified at this article, effective June 30, 1985. The former article consisted of Code Sections 50-12-130 through 50-12-137, relating to

the Georgia Commission on State Growth Policy, and was enacted as Chapter 21 of Title 50 by Ga. L. 1982, p. 2261, § 1, redesignated as this article by Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 39, and amended by Ga. L. 1984, p. 381, §§ 1 through 4.