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title: O.C.G.A. § 40-1-21. Legislative findings; construction.
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# O.C.G.A. § 40-1-21. Legislative findings; construction.

The General Assembly finds that the transportation of hazardous materials on the public roads of this state presents a unique and potentially catastrophic hazard to the public health, safety, and welfare of the people of Georgia and that the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare and the secure transportation of hazardous materials requires control and close regulation of such transportation to minimize that hazard and to that end this article is enacted. This is a remedial law and shall be liberally construed. The Department of Public Safety is designated as the agency to implement and enforce this article.

## History

Code 1981, § 40-1-21, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 479, § 10/HB 112.