2021 Georgia Code
Title 28 - General Assembly
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 28-1-11. Maintenance of Engrossed and Enrolled Bills and Resolutions; Secretary of State to Publish Enrolled Acts
The engrossed copies of all bills and of all resolutions intended to have the effect of law passed by either house of the General Assembly shall be preserved by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. The enrolled copies of all bills and of all resolutions intended to have the effect of law, which, when signed by the Governor, become enrolled Acts, shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State shall provide for the publication of such Acts.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 182; Code 1868, § 177; Code 1873, § 188; Code 1882, § 188; Civil Code 1895, § 308; Civil Code 1910, § 350; Code 1933, § 47-901; Ga. L. 1983, p. 688, § 2.)
Cross references.- Preservation of journals and publication of laws, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. V, Para. I.
Duty of Secretary of State to provide local Acts or general Acts of local application to election superintendent and governing authority, § 45-13-24.
State records management, § 50-18-90 et seq.
Editor's notes.- Ga. L. 1983, p. 688, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "It is the intent of this Act to implement the provisions of Article III, Section V, Paragraph I of the Constitution of the State of Georgia."
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 65.
C.J.S.- 81A C.J.S., States, § 259.
