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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 25. FIRE PROTECTION AND SAFETY · Chapter 15. OTHER SAFETY INSPECTIONS AND REGULATIONS · Article 2. REGULATION OF BOILERS AND PRESSURE VESSELS

25-15-18. Deputy inspectors; qualifications; examination.

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

  1. The Commissioner may employ deputy inspectors who shall be responsible to the chief inspector and who shall have, at the time of appointment:

  2. (1)
    1. (A)

      Not less than three years’ experience in the construction, installation, inspection, operation, maintenance, or repair of high pressure boilers and pressure vessels as a mechanical engineer, steam operating engineer, boilermaker, or boiler inspector; or#

    2. (B)

      Successfully completed a nationally recognized program which provides adequate experience in the field that has been approved by the Commissioner through rule or regulation; and#

  3. (2)

    Passed the examination provided for in Code Section 25-15-20.#

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, § 34-11-9, enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 1227, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 213, § 6; Code 1981, § 25-15-18, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1144, § 2/SB 446; Ga. L. 2024, p. 945, § 14/SB 417, effective July 1, 2024.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, rewrote this Code section, which read: “The Commissioner may employ deputy inspectors who shall be responsible to the chief inspector and who shall have had at the time of appointment not less than three years’ experience in the construction, installation, inspection, operation, maintenance, or repair of high pressure boilers and pressure vessels as a mechanical engineer, steam operating engineer, boilermaker, or boiler inspector and who shall have passed the examination provided for in Code Section 25-15-20.”

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

Text read from t25-t26-(v21)-pdf.pdf, Volume V21, 2023 edition, 2025 supplement, page 44; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 dee9b563c5d6.