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Title 38. MILITARY, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, AND VETERANS AFFAIRS · Chapter 3. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT · Article 3. EMERGENCY POWERS · Part 1. GOVERNOR

38-3-53. Emergency locations — Meeting of General Assembly; call; suspension of constitutional rules.

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

  1. The General Assembly shall meet at the new location provided for in Code Section 38-3-52 either upon the call of the Governor or, if no call is issued, through the initiative of the members thereof following an emergency or disaster resulting from manmade or natural causes or enemy attack impending or affecting this state. At such time the General Assembly shall not be limited by any constitutional provisions relating to length of sessions, and it may suspend the operation of any and all constitutional rules governing the procedure of both the House of Representatives and the Senate as it deems necessary during the period of emergency or disaster.

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

Ga. L. 1962, p. 473, § 1; Ga. L. 1973, p. 74, § 11.

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Text read from t37-t39-(v28)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V28, 2021 edition, page 574; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4eed692485f5.