History. Ga. L. 1943, p. 640, § 5; Ga. L. 1950, p. 32, § 1; Ga. L. 1950, p. 261, § 3; Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 238, §§ 1, 1A; Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 114, § 1; Ga. L. 1961, p. 392, § 1; Ga. L. 1965, p. 438, § 4; Ga. L. 1969, p. 388, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 140, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 896, § 2; Ga. L. 1974, p. 1023, § 2; Ga. L. 1974, p. 1141, § 1; Ga. L. 1975, p. 357, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1894, § 2; Ga. L. 1988, p. 343, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 536, § 3; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2476, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 927, § 1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 427, § 8/HB 969.
The 2010 amendment, effective May 24, 2010, added the last two sentences in subsection (a) and substituted the present provisions of subsection (b) for the former provisions which read: “Reserved.”.