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title: O.C.G.A. § 20-3-420. Legislative purpose; designation of University of North Georgia as premier senior military college of Georgia.
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# O.C.G.A. § 20-3-420. Legislative purpose; designation of University of North Georgia as premier senior military college of Georgia.

(a) The General Assembly finds that the University of North Georgia, a unit of the University System of Georgia, is widely recognized as one of the most outstanding senior military colleges in the United States and that its outstanding status as a senior military college has been formally recognized by the board of regents and by the Department of the Army of the United States. The purpose of this subpart is to recognize this status of the University of North Georgia and to enable Georgia’s most gifted young people who are interested in pursuing a military career to attend this state’s premier senior military college under a full scholarship.

(b) The General Assembly officially designates the University of North Georgia as the premier senior military college of Georgia.

## History

Ga. L. 1980, p. 1292, § 2; Code 1933, § 32-3783, enacted by Ga. L. 1981, p. 735, § 51; Ga. L. 2013, p. 1048, § 1/SB 82.