Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 34. LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS · Chapter 9. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION · Article 2. ADMINISTRATION

34-9-42. Qualifications and roles of members.

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

(a)
The chairperson of the board shall be a person who, on account of his or her previous employment, affiliation, or experience, shall be considered knowledgeable of the concerns of the public at large. One of the remaining two board members shall be a person who, on account of his or her previous employment, association, or affiliation, shall be knowledgeable of the concerns of employers; and the one remaining member of the board shall be a person whose previous employment or affiliation has been as a member of a group subject to this chapter as an employee, regardless of whether the employment of such person has been with a person, firm, or corporation actually operating under this chapter, and who shall be knowledgeable of the concerns of employees.#
(b)
The chairperson and each board member shall be a member of the State Bar of Georgia with at least seven years of practice experience and shall be subject to the Georgia Code of Judicial Conduct.#

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.

Code 1933, § 114-701.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 198, § 6; Ga. L. 1994, p. 887, § 5.

For note on the 1994 amendment of this Code Section, see 11 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 204 (1994).

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Text read from t34-(v26)-2017-pdf.pdf, Volume V26, 2017 edition, pages 574 to 575; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 8ee6134ad6cf.