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Call Now: 904-383-7448The title of every general bill and of every resolution intended to have the effect of general law or to amend this Constitution or to propose a new Constitution shall be read three times and on three separate days in each house before such bill or resolution shall be voted upon; and the third reading of such bill and resolution shall be in their entirety when ordered by the presiding officer or by a majority of the members voting on such question in either house.
- Art. III, Sec. VII, Para. III.
- The Act of 1895 adopting the Code is not unconstitutional because the various sections of the Code were not read three times on three separate days in each house of the General Assembly before the passage of the Act. Central of Ga. Ry. v. State, 104 Ga. 831, 31 S.E. 531 (1898).
- This paragraph does not require that the caption must be as detailed as the Act. It is sufficient if the provision of the Act is germane to the subject thereof stated in the caption. Undercofler v. Hospital Auth., 221 Ga. 501, 145 S.E.2d 487 (1965) (see Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. V, Para. VII).
- A duly enrolled Act, properly authenticated by the regular presiding officers of both houses of the General Assembly, approved by the Governor, and deposited with the Secretary of State as an existing law, will be conclusively presumed to have been enacted in accordance with constitutional requirements; and it is not permissible to show, by the legislative journals or other records, that it did not receive on its passage a majority vote of all the members elected to each house, or that there was any irregularity in its enactment. Capitol Distrib. Co. v. Redwine, 206 Ga. 477, 57 S.E.2d 578 (1950).
- Where a copy of an enrolled Act levying excise taxes on malt beer and wine and purporting to contain the signatures of the Speaker of the House, Clerk of the House, President of the Senate, Secretary of the Senate, and the Governor, is set out and made a part of the amended petition, which seeks to show invalidity upon the contention that a portion of the title was composed and inserted by some method or agency in an irregular manner during the process of its passage, neither the legislative journals nor photostatic copies of the bill are permissible to impeach the Act, because of the conclusive presumption against any irregularity in its enactment. Capitol Distrib. Co. v. Redwine, 206 Ga. 477, 57 S.E.2d 578 (1950).
Cited in York v. State, 172 Ga. 483, 158 S.E. 53 (1931); Glustrom v. State, 206 Ga. 734, 58 S.E.2d 534 (1950).
- 73 Am. Jur. 2d, Statutes, § 24.
- 82 C.J.S., Statutes, § 33 et seq.