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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 4. VOCATIONAL, TECHNICAL, AND ADULT EDUCATION · Article 1. FEDERAL AID

20-4-1. Acceptance of federal act.

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  1. The State of Georgia accepts the provisions of an act of the Congress of the United States approved February 23, 1917 (20 U.S.C. Section 11, et seq.; 39 Stat. 929), the caption of which act is as follows: “An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the states in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to provide for cooperation with the states in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure, and for other purposes,” expressly including such Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of such act and the provisions thereunder and appropriations therefor, to be used according to and as provided in such act.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1917, p. 200, § 1; Ga. L. 1919, p. 288, § 178; Code 1933, § 32-2201; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 20(55)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “(20 U.S.C. Section 11, et seq.; 39 Stat. 929),” for “(20 U.S.C.A. Section 11, et seq.; c. 114, Section 1, 39 Stat. 929),” near the beginning of this Code section.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1996, a comma was inserted following “Section 11” near the beginning.

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