28-9-3. Powers and duties of commission generally.

The commission is authorized:

To select and contract with a publisher to conduct a revision, codification, or recodification of the Code and laws of Georgia, provided that any such contract requiring the expenditure of state funds shall be contingent upon the General Assembly appropriating the necessary funds therefor;#

To formulate with the publisher all the details associated with the codification or recodification of the Code and laws of Georgia;#

To take such action as is necessary to effectuate Code revision;#

To carry out the functions required of it in any contract entered into between the commission and the publisher;#

To negotiate and establish the price at which the Code or any volume, replacement volume, pocket part, index, or related material may be sold to governmental or private purchasers, or both;#

To determine when volumes of the Code may be revised and republished;#

To adopt and implement a system for arranging, numbering, and designating material within the Code;#

To adopt rules of style and grammar for use in the Code;#

To prepare, or provide for the preparation of, and to include in the Code such annotations, historical notes, research references, notes on law review articles, cross-references, summaries of the opinions of the Attorney General of Georgia, editor’s notes, Code Revision Commission notes, comments, commentaries, rules and regulations, indexes, tables, and other material as the commission determines to be useful to users of the Code; provided, however, that such supplementary matter included in the Code shall bear no additional weight or effect and shall not be construed to have the imprimatur of the General Assembly by virtue of its inclusion in the Code;#

To provide for the publication of annotated or unannotated versions of the Code, or both;#

To provide for the publication of volumes containing the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Georgia, and an index of local and special laws, general laws of local application, and home rule ordinances;#

To review, approve, or disapprove the work of the publisher in preparing, supplementing, indexing, or revising state content included in the Code or any volume, pocket part, or portion thereof; provided, however, that the commission shall have no oversight of the work of the publisher in preparing, supplementing, indexing, or revising supplementary content included by the publisher in accordance with the contract between the publisher and the commission;#

To grant exclusive or nonexclusive publication and sales rights to the Code or portions thereof to the publisher;#

To grant rights to governmental agencies and others to reprint and distribute portions or excerpts of the Code;#

To negotiate and grant licenses or rights, on behalf of the state, to use such material upon such terms and conditions as the commission shall determine to be in the best interest of the state;#

To seek the advice and assistance of members and committees of the State Bar of Georgia, the law schools of the state, the Attorney General or members of his staff, state and local public officials and employees, and others with expertise or interest in the laws of Georgia;#

To provide for the preparation and introduction of one or more bills to revise, modernize, and correct errors or omissions in the Code or the laws of Georgia or to repeal portions of the Code or laws which have become obsolete, have been declared to be unconstitutional, or have been preempted or superseded by subsequent state or federal laws;#

To provide assistance and oversight for the digitization and electronic publication of the Georgia Laws so as to create a permanent digital repository of the session laws of Georgia and to provide single-point public access to the local and general Acts and the resolutions of the General Assembly;#

To provide for procedures for the implementation or execution of its powers and duties; and#

To take such other action or exercise such additional powers as may be necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the duties and powers of the commission, or any contract entered into under this chapter.#