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title: O.C.G.A. § 12-8-33. Recycling Market Development Council.
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# O.C.G.A. § 12-8-33. Recycling Market Development Council.

(a) Effective July 1, 1990, there is created a 15 member Recycling Market Development Council to be appointed as follows:

(1) Seven members appointed by the Governor representing the paper, glass, aluminum, plastic, tire, and ferrous and nonferrous metals industries and trade associations which are active in recycling;

(2) One member who is an elected or appointed municipal official to be appointed by the Governor;

(3) One member who is an elected or appointed member of a county governing authority to be appointed by the Governor;

(4) One member appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;

(5) One member appointed by the President of the Senate; and

(6) One representative each from the Department of Administrative Services; the Department of Economic Development; the Department of Community Affairs; and the Department of Natural Resources.

(b) The council shall meet as necessary and shall determine what actions, if any, are needed to facilitate the development and expansion of markets for recovered materials in Georgia and shall prepare an annual report with recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly. The council shall not be required to distribute copies of the annual report to the members of the General Assembly but shall notify the members of the availability of the annual report in the manner which it deems to be most effective and efficient.

(c) The council shall function for a period of five years from its establishment, at which time it shall either be reauthorized or shall stand abolished.

## History

Code 1981, § 12-8-33, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 412, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 3276, § 13; Ga. L. 2004, p. 690, § 11; Ga. L. 2004, p. 1036, § 11; Ga. L. 2023, p. 264, § 1/SB 95, effective July 1, 2023.

## Editor's Notes

Ga. L. 2023, p. 264, § 3/SB 95, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “In accordance with the requirements of Article III, Section IX, Paragraph VI(r) of the Constitution of Georgia, this Act shall not become law unless it receives the requisite two-thirds’ majority vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives and the amount of the funds dedicated by this Act do not equal or exceed 1 percent of the previous fiscal year’s state revenues subject to appropriations.”

## Amendments

The 2023 amendment, effective July 1, 2023, inserted “tire,” in paragraph (a)(1).