Skip to content
Georgia Commons
Menu

Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 19. GEOLOGISTS

43-19-6. General powers and duties of board.

Active

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

  1. In addition to other powers and duties specified in this chapter, the board shall:

  2. (1)

    Adopt and amend rules and regulations which may be reasonably necessary for this chapter and the regulation of proceedings before the board. The board and all of its rules, regulations, and procedures are subject to and shall comply with Chapter 13 of Title 50, the “Georgia Administrative Procedure Act”;#

  3. (2)

    Adopt and have an official seal;#

  4. (3)

    Issue, renew, and reinstate the certificates of duly qualified persons;#

  5. (4)

    Initiate investigations for the purpose of discovering violations of this chapter;#

  6. (5)

    Conduct hearings upon charges calling for the discipline of a licensee or on violations of this chapter;#

  7. (6)

    Adopt a code of professional conduct; and#

  8. (7)

    Have such other powers and duties as are necessary to effectuate this chapter.#

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

Code 1933, § 84-2517A, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 163, § 1; Code 1933, § 84-2117A, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1976, p. 695, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 603, § 3.

Administrative rules and regulations

Rules of the profession, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Georgia State Board of Registration for Professional Geologists, Chapter 265-1 et seq.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t43-ch1-32-(v30)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V30, 2022 edition, page 661; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 0e619b1f34e2.