Georgia Code, Title 28, Chapter 1 - General Provisions

• § 28-1-1 - Membership and Apportionment of General Assembly
  (a) There shall be 180 members of the House of Representatives, and such membership shall be apportioned among the representative districts provided for in...
• § 28-1-2 - Time and Place of Meetings
  The meetings of the General Assembly shall be held as prescribed in Article III, Section IV, Paragraph I of the Constitution of Georgia. The...
• § 28-1-3 - Initial Organization
  The Senate and the House of Representatives shall be organized by the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives...
• § 28-1-4 - Form and Administration of Oath of Office to Members
  (a) In addition to any other oath prescribed by law, each Senator and Representative, before taking the seat to which elected, shall take the...
• § 28-1-5 - Commission of Members
  It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to prepare and furnish to each member of the General Assembly, after the member...
• § 28-1-6 - Powers and Duties of President Pro Tempore of the Senate and Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives
  While presiding or in the absence of the President of the Senate, the President Pro Tempore shall have the same powers and duties as...
• § 28-1-6.1 - Method for Determining Permanent Disability of Speaker of the House of Representatives
  Upon a petition of 20 members of the majority caucus of the House of Representatives being filed with the Clerk of the House that...
• § 28-1-7 - Failure of Officer to Organize Emergency Session
  If any officer of either branch of the General Assembly shall fail or refuse to perform any of his duties in completing the organization...
• § 28-1-8 - Salary and Allowances of Members and Officers
  (a) Each member of the General Assembly shall receive an annual salary, as provided for in Code Section 45-7-4, to be paid in equal...
• § 28-1-8.1 - Failure of Members to File State Income Tax Returns
  (a) The state revenue commissioner shall be required to report to the chairperson of the Senate Ethics Committee the name of any Senator who...
• § 28-1-9 - Service in General Assembly to Be Credited to Pension Plan of Employee of Political Subdivision
  Any person employed by any political subdivision or elected to an office therein on or after March 6, 1962, who, by reason of such...
• § 28-1-10 - Seals of the General Assembly and of Each House
  Authority is granted for the General Assembly, the House of Representatives, and the Senate each to have a seal. The Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker...
• § 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...
• § 28-1-12 - Election of State Officers for Whom Manner and Time of Election Not Provided
  Every state officer whose election is not otherwise provided for shall be elected by the General Assembly in the same manner and at the...
• § 28-1-13 - Eligibility of Elected County or Municipal Officials for Membership in General Assembly
  No elected county or municipal official shall be eligible to serve as a member of the General Assembly.
• § 28-1-14 - Notice of Intention to Introduce Local Bill; Copies to Governing Authorities
  (a) No local bill shall become law unless notice of the intention to introduce such bill shall have been advertised in the newspaper in...
• § 28-1-14.1 - Local Bills Proposing Annexation by Municipalities; Providing Copies to County Governing Authority
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2002, p. 985, § 1, effective May 14, 2002.
• § 28-1-15 - Restrictions on Population Bills; "Population Bill" Defined
  (a) This Code section is passed pursuant to the authority of Article III, Section VI, Paragraph IV, subparagraph (b) of the Constitution, and no...
• § 28-1-16 - Issuance of Subpoenas by Superior Court of Fulton County on Behalf of the Committees on Ethics of the Senate and House of Representatives
  (a) If the Committee on Ethics of the Senate or House of Representatives determines that the effective functioning of the committee requires the issuance...
• § 28-1-17 - Prefiling of Proposed Bills and Resolutions Prior to Each Legislative Session; Administrative Procedure
  (a) The purpose of this Code section is to establish an administrative procedure for the prefiling of proposed bills and resolutions prior to the...

Last modified: October 14, 2016