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Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 4. VOCATIONAL, TECHNICAL, AND ADULT EDUCATION · Article 5. GEORGIA JOINT DEFENSE COMMISSION · Part 2. DEFENSE COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM

20-4-132. Awarding of grants.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. (a)

    The amount of any grant awarded pursuant to this part shall be determined by the commissioner of economic development on a caseby-case review of applications which shall include, but shall not be limited to, a consideration of the grant goal being proposed and the extent to which it:#

    1. (1)

      Furthers the relationship between the military community and military installation;#

    2. (2)

      Furthers the military installation’s economic development investment into the military community; or#

    3. (3)

      Assists in efforts to defend the viability of a military installation from a federal review.#

  2. (b)

    Each military community shall be required as a condition of receipt of any grant awarded pursuant to this part to match such awarded funds. The commissioner of economic development shall prescribe conditions for releasing grant funds based upon a military community matching such funds.#

  3. (c)

    The commissioner of economic development shall be authorized to charge such fees as are reasonable and necessary to offset costs associated with processing applications submitted pursuant to this part.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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

Code 1981, § 20-4-132, enacted by Ga. L. 2018, p. 349, § 1/SB 395; Ga. L. 2024, p. 394, § 2/SB 398, effective July 1, 2024; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 20(63)(C)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, substituted “Department of Economic Development” for “Technical College System of Georgia” in the middle of subsection (a), near the beginning of the second sentence of subsection (b), and near the beginning of subsection (c). The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “commissioner of economic development” for “commissioner of the Department of Economic Development” in subsections (a), (b), and (c).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Text read from t20-ch3-18-(v17a)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V17A, 2025 edition, page 439; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 4560a0cef806.