History. Ga. L. 1908, p. 88, §§ 1, 2; Civil Code 1910, §§ 2057, 2058; Code 1933, §§ 84-1502, 84-1503; Code 1933, § 84-1504, enacted by Ga. L. 1965, p. 92, § 1; Ga. L. 1974, p. 1441, § 1; Code 1933, § 84-1504.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 64, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 615, §§ 1-1, 2-1; Ga. L. 2018, p. 770, § 3/HB 956; Ga. L. 2020, p. 482, § 1/SB 346.
Delayed effective date.
Ga. L. 2003, p. 615, § 3-1, provides that the 2003 amendment by § 2-1 of that Act becomes effective only upon the effective date of an appropriation of funds for the specific purposes of Part II of that Act as expressed in a line item making specific reference to full funding of the Act in an Appropriations Act enacted by the General Assembly. Funds were not appropriated at the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, or 2022 session of the General Assembly. This Code section, as set out above, does not reflect the amendment by § 2-1 of that Act, owing to the delayed effective date.
The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, in subsection (a), in the second sentence, substituted “seven members” for “six members” and inserted “no more than” and added the fifth and sixth sentences.
Cross references.
Opening meetings of public agencies to members of public generally, T. 50, C. 14.
Law reviews.
For comment on Rogers v. Medical Ass’n, 244 Ga. 151 , 259 S.E.2d 85 (1979), invalidating Georgia statute requiring Governor’s appointments to Composite State Board of Medical Examiners (now Georgia Composite Medical Board) be made solely from nominees submitted by state medical society as an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority to a private organization, see 29 Emory L.J. 1183 (1980).