Georgia Code, Title 50, Chapter 13, Article 1 - General Provisions

• § 50-13-1 - Short Title; Purpose
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act." It is not intended that this chapter create or...
• § 50-13-2 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter, the term: (1) "Agency" means each state board, bureau, commission, department, activity, or officer authorized by law expressly to...
• § 50-13-3 - Adoption of Rules of Organization and Practice; Public Inspection and Validity of Rules, Policies, Orders, Decisions, and Opinions
  (a) In addition to other rule-making requirements imposed by law, each agency shall: (1) Adopt as a rule a description of its organization, stating...
• § 50-13-4 - Procedural Requirements for Adoption, Amendment, or Repeal of Rules; Emergency Rules; Limitation on Action to Contest Rule; Legislative Override
  (a) Prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of any rule, other than interpretive rules or general statements of policy, the agency shall: (1)...
• § 50-13-4.1 - Agency Reporting on Required Regulation
  Each agency shall prepare annually a report that specifies with detail those federal government mandates that require agency promulgation of rules and regulations rather...
• § 50-13-5 - Filing of Previously Adopted Rules
  (a) Within 20 days after July 1, 1965, each agency shall file with the Secretary of State a certified copy of all rules which...
• § 50-13-6 - Rules Not Effective Until 20 Days After Filed With Secretary of State; Maintenance of Record of the Rules; Exceptions; Rules Governing Manner and Form of Filing
  (a) Each rule adopted after July 1, 1965, shall not become effective until the expiration of 20 days after the rule is filed in...
• § 50-13-7 - Secretary of State to Publish Compilation of Rules and Quarterly Bulletin
  (a) The Secretary of State shall compile, index, and publish in print or electronically all rules adopted by each agency and remaining in effect....
• § 50-13-8 - Judicial Notice of Rules
  The courts shall take judicial notice of any rule which has become effective pursuant to this chapter.
• § 50-13-9 - Petition for Promulgation, Amendment, or Repeal of Rule; Agency Response
  An interested person may petition an agency requesting the promulgation, amendment, or repeal of a rule. Each agency shall prescribe by rule the form...
• § 50-13-9.1 - Variances or Waivers to Rules
  (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the strict application of rules can lead to unreasonable, uneconomical, and unintended results in particular instances....
• § 50-13-10 - Declaratory Judgment on Validity of Rules; Venue for Actions
  (a) The validity of any rule, waiver, or variance may be determined in an action for declaratory judgment when it is alleged that the...
• § 50-13-11 - Declaratory Rulings by Agencies
  Each agency shall provide by rule for the filing and prompt disposition of petitions for declaratory rulings as to the applicability of any statutory...
• § 50-13-12 - Department of Revenue to Hold Hearing When Demanded by Aggrieved Taxpayer; Election of Remedies
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2012, p. 318, § 12/HB 100, effective January 1, 2013.
• § 50-13-13 - Opportunity for Hearing in Contested Cases; Notice; Counsel; Subpoenas; Record; Enforcement Powers; Revenue Cases
  (a) In addition to any other requirements imposed by common law, constitution, statutes, or regulations: (1) In any contested case, all parties shall be...
• § 50-13-14 - Intervention in Contested Cases
  In contested cases: (1) Upon timely application, any person shall be permitted to intervene when a statute confers an unconditional right to intervene or...
• § 50-13-15 - Rules of Evidence in Contested Cases; Official Notice; Conducting Hearings by Utilizing Remote Telephonic Communications
  In contested cases: (1) Irrelevant, immaterial, or unduly repetitious evidence shall be excluded. The rules of evidence as applied in the trial of civil...
• § 50-13-16 - Proposal for Decision in Contested Cases; Opportunity to File Exceptions and Present Briefs and Arguments
  When in a contested case a majority of the officials of the agency who are to render the final decision have not heard the...
• § 50-13-17 - Initial Decisions in Contested Cases; Review of Initial Decisions; Final Decisions and Orders; Public Service Commission Exceptions
  (a) In contested cases in which the agency has not presided at the reception of the evidence, the agency representative who presided shall initially...
• § 50-13-18 - Procedure Upon Grant, Denial, Renewal, Revocation, Suspension, Annulment, or Withdrawal of Licenses
  (a) When the grant, denial, or renewal of a license is required by law to be preceded by notice and opportunity for hearing, Code...
• § 50-13-19 - Judicial Review of Contested Cases
  (a) Any person who has exhausted all administrative remedies available within the agency and who is aggrieved by a final decision in a contested...
• § 50-13-20 - Review of Final Judgment
  An aggrieved party may obtain a review of any final judgment of the superior court under this chapter by the Court of Appeals or...
• § 50-13-20.1 - Judicial Review of Final Decision in Contested Case Issued by Administrative Law Judge
  A petition for judicial review of a final decision in a contested case issued by an administrative law judge pursuant to subsection (e) of...
• § 50-13-21 - Compliance With Filing and Hearing Requirements by Safety Fire Commissioner and Commissioner of Insurance
  As to such regulations, standards, and plans as are required by law to be filed and kept on file with the office of the...
• § 50-13-22 - Construction of Chapter
  Nothing in this chapter shall be held to diminish the constitutional rights of any person, to limit or repeal additional requirements imposed by statute...
• § 50-13-23 - Determining Date When Documents Received by or Filed With Agencies
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any document required by law, rule, or regulation to be received by or filed with any...

Last modified: October 14, 2016