Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 49. SOCIAL SERVICES · Chapter 2. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

49-2-5. Department is institution of state; power to disburse state, county, and federal funds.

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

The department is declared to be an institution of the state for which the powers of taxation over the whole state may be exercised, and the department is empowered and authorized to administer, expend, and disburse funds appropriated to it and allocated to it by the General Assembly, the respective counties of the state, and the United States, through its appropriate agencies and instrumentalities for the purpose of distributing old-age benefits and all other benefits as provided in this title.

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.

Ga. L. 1937, p. 355, § 2; Ga. L. 1960, p. 85, § 2; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 49; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 65; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.

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