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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 40. REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND SALESPERSONS

43-40-7. Application for licenses; confidentiality.

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

  1. (a)

    Any person desiring to act as a real estate licensee must file an application for a license with the commission. All original and subsequent applications filed with the commission shall be in such form and detail as the commission shall prescribe, setting forth the following:#

    1. (1)

      The name and address of the applicant or the name under which he or she intends to conduct business and, if the applicant is a partnership or limited liability company, the name and residence address of each member thereof and the name under which the partnership or limited liability company business is to be conducted and, if the applicant is a corporation, the name and address of each of its principal officers;#

    2. (2)

      The place or places, including the city with the street and street number, if any, where the business is to be conducted; and#

    3. (3)

      Such other information as the commission shall require.#

  2. (b)

    Notwithstanding any provision of Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 to the contrary, all applications, including supporting documents and other personal information submitted by applicants and licensees as part of an application filed with the commission, shall be confidential. The commission shall deem as public records the following information and shall make such information reasonably available for inspection by the general public: a licensee’s name, license number and status, business name, business address, business telephone number, type of license held, and term of license; the fact that a licensee has or has not received a disciplinary sanction; and such other information pertaining to the license of a licensee or approval of a school, course, or instructor as the commission may determine by rule.#

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. 1925, p. 325, § 7; Code 1933, § 84-1410; Code 1933, § 84-1409, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 100, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 123, § 50; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1527, § 12.

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

Text read from t43-ch33-51-(v30a)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V30A, 2021 edition, pages 426 to 427; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 6fb9eb45ca3a.