Georgia Code
Article 2 - Licenses for the Practice of Dentistry
§ 43-11-47. Refusal to Grant, or Revocation Of, Licenses; Disciplining Licensees; Subpoenas; Judicial Review; Investigations; Immunity; Failure to Appear; Voluntary Surrender

The plea of nolo contendere or the order entered pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of Chapter 8 of Title 42 or other first offender treatment shall be conclusive evidence of arrest and sentencing for such crime;
History. Ga. L. 1920, p. 132, § 13; Code 1933, § 84-9908; Ga. L. 1937, p. 627, § 1; Ga. L. 1958, p. 25, § 2; Ga. L. 1972, p. 843, § 4; Ga. L. 1974, p. 532, § 1; Ga. L. 1974, p. 1223, § 5; Code 1933, § 84-724, enacted by Ga. L. 1976, p. 484, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1760, § 1; Ga. L. 1979, p. 853, § 2; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1389, § 6; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 43; Ga. L. 1987, p. 932, § 7; Ga. L. 1988, p. 13, § 43; Ga. L. 1993, p. 123, § 26; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 43; Ga. L. 1996, p. 226, § 3; Ga. L. 1999, p. 234, § 17; Ga. L. 2000, p. 136, § 43; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 3; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1706, § 19; Ga. L. 2013, p. 192, § 2-14/HB 132.
Cross references.
Insurance fraud, § 33-1-9 .
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1996, in subsection (a), the paragraph (a)(13) designation, which had been inadvertently stricken by the 1996 amendment, was added.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1999, “paragraph” was substituted for “subsection” in the last sentence in paragraph (a)(12) and “of this Code section” was inserted in subsection (j).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 16, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment to subsection (k) is applicable with respect to notices delivered on or after July 1, 2000.
Administrative rules and regulations.
Investigations, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia Board of Dentistry, Chapter 150-4.
Law reviews.
For article on the effect on receiving government-issued licenses after a conviction based on a nolo contendere plea, see 13 Ga. L. Rev. 723 (1979).

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