Official Code of Georgia Annotated/Title 1/Chapter 1/Section 1
The statutory portion of the codification of Georgia laws prepared by the Code Revision Commission and the Michie Company pursuant to a contract entered into on June 19, 1978, is enacted and shall have the effect of statutes enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia. The statutory portion of such codification shall be merged with annotations, captions, catchlines, history lines, editorial notes, cross-references, indices, title and chapter analyses, and other materials pursuant to the contract and shall be published by authority of the state pursuant to such contract and when so published shall be known and may be cited as the “Official Code of Georgia Annotated.”
(Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 1.)
Cross references.—Powers and duties of Code Revision Commission regarding publication of Code, §§ 28—9—3, 28—9—5.
Effect of reenactment of the Code, § 28—9—5.
Authorization to use state emblem on cover of official Code, § 50—3—8(b).
Editor’s notes.—The Michie Company, referred to in this Code section, now operates under the trade name LexisNexis/srs, a division of ReedElsevier.
For the Acts reenacting the Official Code of Georgia Annotated as amended by the text and numbering contained in the 1982 through 2018 supplements, see Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 54; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 54; Ga. L. 1986, p. 10, § 54; Ga. L. 1987, p. 3, § 54; Ga. L. 1988, p. 13, § 54; Ga. L. 1989, p. 14, § 54; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 54; Ga. L. 1991, p. 94, § 54; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 5; Ga. L. 1993, p. 91, § 54; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 54; Ga. L. 1995, p. 10, § 54; Ga. L. 1996, p. 6, § 54; Ga. L. 1997, p. 143, § 54; Ga. L. 1998, p. 128, § 54; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 54; Ga. L. 2000, p. 136, § 54; Ga. L. 2001, p. 4, § 54; Ga. L. 2002, p. 415, § 54; Ga. L. 2003, p. 140, § 54; Ga. L. 2004, p. 631, § 54; Ga. L. 2005, p. 60, § 54; Ga. L. 2006, p. 72, § 54; Ga. L. 2007, p. 47, § 54; Ga. L. 2008, p. 324, § 54; Ga. L. 2009, p. 8, § 54; Ga. L. 2010, p. 878, § 54; Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 54; Ga. L. 2012, p. 775, § 54, Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 54; Ga. L. 2014, p. 866, § 54; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 54; Ga. L. 2016, p. 864, § 54/HB 737; Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 54/HB 323, Ga. L. 2018, p. 1112, § 54/SB 365, and Ga. L. 2019, p. 1056, § 54/SB52, respectively.
Law reviews.—For article, “Researching Georgia Law,” see 9 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 585 (1993). For article, “Researching Georgia Law,” see 34 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 741 (2015).
For discussion of the work of the Code Revision Commission in making the Code, see 18 Ga. St. B. J. 102 (1982).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Official Code publication controls over unofficial compilation.—Attorneys who cite unofficial publication of 1981 Code do so at their peril; in any situation wherein defendant’s compilation differs in any way from statutory provisions of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated as published by Michie (now Lexis-Nexis�), it is the Michie publication which is controlling. Georgia ex rel. Gen. Ass’y v. Harrison Co., 548 F. Supp. 110 (N. D. Ga. 1982), orders vacated, 559 F. Supp. 37 (N. D. Ga. 1983).
Cited in Axson v. State, 174 Ga. App. 236, 329 S. E. 2d 566 (1985).