Georgia CommonsTitle 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 14. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS, PLUMBERS, CONDITIONED AIR CONTRACTORS, LOW VOLTAGE CONTRACTORS, AND UTILITY CONTRACTORS
43-14-1. Declaration of purpose.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
This chapter is enacted for the purpose of safeguarding homeowners, other property owners, tenants, and the general public against faulty, inadequate, inefficient, or unsafe electrical, plumbing, low voltage wiring, utility contracting, or conditioned air installations. The practices of electrical contracting, plumbing contracting, low voltage contracting, utility contracting, and conditioned air contracting are declared to be businesses or professions affecting the public interest; and this chapter shall be liberally construed so as to accomplish the purposes stated in this Code section.
History
Ga. L. 1949, p. 1622, § 1; Ga. L. 1968, p. 308, § 1; Ga. L. 1971, p. 583, § 2; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1299, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 424, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 1129, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1756, § 1; Ga. L. 2025, p. 359, § 1-1/SB 125, effective July 1, 2025.
Amendments
The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, substituted “low voltage” for “low-voltage” in the first sentence, and in the second sentence, substituted “practices” for “practice” and “low voltage” for “installing, or repairing, low-voltage.”
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Text read from t43-ch1-32-(v30)-pdf.pdf, Volume V30, 2022 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 132 to 133; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 2878b50660ad.
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