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Title 34. LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

34-1-5. ‘‘Multiracial’’ classification required on forms.

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

  1. (a)

    As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘multiracial’’ means having parents of different races.#

  2. (b)

    All written forms, applications, questionnaires, and other written documents or materials produced by or for or used by any person, firm, association, or corporation conducting business within this state requiring the employment of labor which request information on the racial or ethnic identification of an employee and which contain a list of racial and ethnic classifications from which such employee must select one shall include among their choices the classification ‘‘multiracial.’’#

  3. (c)

    No such written document or computer software described in subsection (b) of this Code section shall bear the designation ‘‘other’’ as a racial or ethnic classification after July 1, 1994, unless such document was printed and in stock before July 1, 1994.#

  4. (d)

    The failure of any person, firm, or corporation to comply with the provisions of this Code section shall not be construed to create any civil cause of action.#

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, § 34-1-5, enacted by Ga. L. 1994, p. 1360, § 3; Ga. L. 1998, p. 128, § 34.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 1994, p. 1360, § 4, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the provisions of the Act apply to those forms, applications, questionnaires, and other written documents printed or typed or otherwise originating after July 1, 1994; provided, however, that all documents printed and in stock on July 1, 1994, which bear the racial designation ‘‘other’’ shall be used and the stock depleted prior to reordering under the provisions of the Act even if the date occurs after July 1, 1994.

Cross references

Multiracial classification on forms, §§ 20-2-2041, 50-18-135.

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

Text read from t34-(v26)-2017-pdf.pdf, Volume V26, 2017 edition, pages 7 to 8; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 8ee6134ad6cf.