History. Ga. L. 1950, p. 50, § 12; Ga. L. 1951, p. 472, § 4; Ga. L. 1952, p. 81, § 2; Ga. L. 1956, p. 280, § 11; Ga. L. 1958, p. 341, § 7; Ga. L. 1959, p. 330, § 3; Ga. L. 1962, p. 39, § 6; Ga. L. 1963, p. 386, § 1; Ga. L. 1976, p. 580, § 1; Ga. L. 1977, p. 682, § 1; Ga. L. 1979, p. 430, §§ 4, 5; Ga. L. 1981, p. 454, §§ 4, 5; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 47; Ga. L. 1982, p. 2367, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1986, p. 30, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 609, § 2; Ga. L. 1988, p. 999, § 2; Ga. L. 1990, p. 482, § 2; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1000, §§ 3, 4; Ga. L. 2012, p. 769, § 2/HB 928.
The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, inserted “or her” and inserted “or she” throughout this Code section; inserted “or herself” in the second sentence of subsection (e); deleted subsections (h) through (q), relating to authority and duties of a hearing officer; and redesignated former subsection (r) as present subsection (h).