Any change or correction made by the Code Revision Commission pursuant to its authority under this subsection shall not become the law of the State of Georgia if such change or correction results in an alteration of the meaning, sense, or effect of the Acts and resolutions of the General Assembly, even though such change or correction may have been included in a pocket part, supplement, or revised volume of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated which has been reenacted by a bill authorized by subsection (c) of this Code section.
History. Code 1981, § 28-9-5 , enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 202, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 10, § 28; Ga. L. 2014, p. 866, § 28/SB 340; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 28/HB 90; Ga. L. 2021, p. 916, § 5/SB 238.
Code Commission notes.
The last sentence of current subsection (c) of this Code section regarding the effect of reenactment of the Code was added by Ga. L. 2014, p. 866, § 28/SB 340, in immediate response to (and in rejection of) footnote 3 of the majority opinion in Rutter v. Rutter, 294 Ga. 1 , 749 S.E.2d 657 (2013).
The 2021 amendment, effective July 1, 2021, added “take any of the following actions with respect to statutory text, arrangement, and numbering” at the end of the introductory language in subsection (a).
Editor’s notes.
The Act which enacted this Code section was signed on the same day as, but subsequent to, the Act which enacted Code Sections 28-9-1 through 28-9-4 . Section 2 of the Act which enacted this Code section provided that this Code section would be designated “§ 28-1-16 ” in the event that Ga. L. 1985, p. 197 (enacting §§ 28-9-1 through 28-9-4 ) was not enacted at the 1985 session. Ga. L. 1985, p. 197 was signed into law effective February 12, 1985.
Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 54(d)/HB 79, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “For purposes of publishing volumes, replacement volumes, and supplements to the Official Code of Georgia Annotated pursuant to Chapter 9 of Title 28: legislation enacted at the same session of the General Assembly and amending the same statutory provision shall be considered in pari materia, and full effect shall be given to each if that is possible; Acts enacted during the same session shall be treated as conflicting with each other only to the extent that they cannot be given effect simultaneously; in the event of such a conflict, the latest enactment, as determined by the order in which bills became law with or without the approval of the Governor, shall control to the extent of the conflict unless the latest enactment contains a provision expressly ceding control in such an event; and language carried forward unchanged in one amendatory Act shall not be read as conflicting with changed language contained in another Act passed during the same session.” This provision was later codified by Ga. L. 2014, p. 866, § 28/SB 340, as subsection (b) of Code Section 28-9-5.
For Acts reenacting the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, see the Editor’s notes to § 1-1-1 .
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