2021 Georgia Code
Title 1 - General Provisions
Chapter 3 - Laws and Statutes
- § 1-3-1. Construction of Statutes Generally
- § 1-3-2. Construction of Definitions
- § 1-3-3. Definitions
- § 1-3-4. Effective Date of Legislative Acts
- § 1-3-4.1. Effective Date for General Acts Requiring Increases in Compensation of Certain County Officials
- § 1-3-5. Operation of Laws Generally; Retrospective Operation
- § 1-3-6. When Laws Become Obligatory; Effect of Ignorance
- § 1-3-7. Abrogation of Laws by Agreement; Waiver or Renunciation of Benefits Established by Law
- § 1-3-8. Binding Effect of Legislation Upon State
- § 1-3-9. Effect and Enforcement of Foreign Laws
- § 1-3-10. Execution of Writings and Contracts
- § 1-3-11. Local Referenda on Abolishing Offices or Shortening or Lengthening Term
- Duty of Secretary of State to provide copies of legislative Acts to Office of Legislative Counsel and to court clerks, ยง 45-13-24.
Editor's notes.- By resolution (Ga. L. 1986, p. 529), the General Assembly designated the English language as the official language of the State of Georgia.
Law reviews.- For article discussing problems of construction when repeal statutes are subsequently repealed, see 10 Ga. St. B. J. 41 (1973). For article, "Statutes of Nonstatutory Origin," see 14 Ga. L. Rev. 239 (1980). For article, "Law Among the Pleonasms: The Futility and Aconstitutionality of Legislative History in Statutory Interpretation," see 41 Emory L.J. 113 (1992).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
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- Supplying omitted words in statute or ordinance, 3 A.L.R. 404; 126 A.L.R. 1325.
Inhibition by decree of divorce or statute of state or country in which it is granted, against remarriage, as affecting a marriage celebrated in another state or country, 51 A.L.R. 325.
Constitutionality of statute relating to purchase of capital stock by employees of corporation, 63 A.L.R. 841.
Previous statute as affected by attempted but unconstitutional amendment, 66 A.L.R. 1483.
Applicability of constitutional provision requiring reenactment of altered or amended statute to one which leaves intact terms of original statute, but transfers or extends its operation to another field, 67 A.L.R. 564.
Constitutionality of curative statutes purporting to validate prior unconstitutional statutes, or statutes not enacted in the manner prescribed by the Constitution, 70 A.L.R. 1436.
Unconstitutionality of later statute as affecting provision purporting specifically to repeal earlier statute, 102 A.L.R. 802.
Determination of conditions that terminate operation of legislative act which by virtue of its terms or constitutional considerations is temporary, 104 A.L.R. 1163.
Liability of public officer in respect of public money paid out in reliance upon unconstitutional statute, 118 A.L.R. 787.
"And/or," 118 A.L.R. 1367; 154 A.L.R. 866.
Inclusion or exclusion of the day of birth in computing one's age, 5 A.L.R.2d 1143.
Applicability of constitutional requirement that repealing or amendatory statute refer to statute repealed or amended, to repeal or amendment by implication, 5 A.L.R.2d 1270.
Extraterritorial operation of limitation applicable to statutory cause of action, other than by reason of "borrowing statute,", 95 A.L.R.2d 1162.
