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title: O.C.G.A. § 36-32-26. Functions, powers, and responsibilities.
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# O.C.G.A. § 36-32-26. Functions, powers, and responsibilities.

The council is vested with the following functions, powers, and responsibilities:

(1) To make all the necessary rules and regulations to carry out this article;

(2) To cooperate with and secure the cooperation of every department, agency, or instrumentality of the state government or its political subdivisions in furtherance of the purposes of this article;

(3) To approve schools and to prescribe minimum qualifications for instructors at approved schools;

(4) To issue a certification to any municipal court judge satisfactorily complying with an approved training program established;

(5) To do any and all things necessary or convenient to enable it wholly and adequately to perform its duties and to exercise the power granted to it; and

(6) To prescribe, by rules and regulations, the minimum requirements for curricula and standards composing the initial in-service, advanced, specialized, and continuing training courses for certification.

## History

Code 1981, § 36-32-26, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 882, § 2.