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Buildings And Housing Georgia Residential Finance Authority Act: Increase Authority To Issue Bonds To Provide Facilities For The Elderly And Mentally Disabled, M. Hathaway
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act adds language to the Georgia Residential Finance Authority (GRFA) statute permitting the GRFA to issue bonds for two additional types of housing activities. The new bonding authority allows the GRFA to finance home equity conversion mortgages for the elderly and residential facilities for the mentally disabled. Funding limits for these new programs fall under pre-existing bond ceilings of the Authority. The Act establishes funding limits for the program and also postpones the due date for the state housing goal report from 1989 to 1990. The Act requires the filing of these reports each even-numbered year thereafter.
Criminal Procedure Bonds And Recognizances: Amend Forfeiture Provisions, R. Goff
Criminal Procedure Bonds And Recognizances: Amend Forfeiture Provisions, R. Goff
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act amends the Code sections relating to time frames for the holding of execution hearings for forfeiture of the bail bonds, should the principal not appear. Changes are also made in the circumstances under which forfeiture will not be entered.
Criminal Procedure Bonds And Recognizances: Amend Provisions For Notice To Superior Court; Provide For Temporary Release Of Certain Detainees, R. Goff
Georgia State University Law Review
SB 255 amends existing provisions requiring notice to the superior court when a person is being held in a detention facility and is charged with an offense bailable only before a superior court judge. HB 466 creates a new section permitting the release of a person who has been found guilty of certain crimes, pending his reporting to a correction facility to serve his sentence. This release may be conditioned upon either the convicted person's own recognizance or the posting of bond to ensure his return at the time for the sentence to commence.
Elections Ethics In Government: Revise Campaign Contribution Regulations, R. Barbe
Elections Ethics In Government: Revise Campaign Contribution Regulations, R. Barbe
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act prohibits insurers, industrial loan licensees, and political action committees from making contributions to or on behalf of a candidate for the office of Commissioner of Insurance.
Evidence Rape Shield Statute: Provide Qualified Two-Part Requirement For Admission Of Complainant's Past Sexual History, S. Brannan
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act amends Georgia's Rape Shield Act by providing that evidence of the complainant's past sexual behavior may be introduced if it directly involved the defendant and could have led him to reasonably believe the complainant consented to sexual intercourse. Evidence of a complainant sexual history is also admissible if it is highly material to, and substantially supportive of, a conclusion that the defendant reasonably believed that the complainant consented and that justice mandates its admission even though the complainant had no past relations with the accused.
Penal Institutions Prisons And Pardons/Paroles Reform, S. Taylor
Penal Institutions Prisons And Pardons/Paroles Reform, S. Taylor
Georgia State University Law Review
The new legislation establishes alternatives to incarceration which may be considered by the sentencing judge, increases reporting responsibilities of probationers, modifies procedures for jail construction, increases fines to fund jail construction, establishes bond forfeiture procedures, and institutes a program which allows judges to release prisoners on their own recognizance or on bail prior to incarceration.
Commerce And Trade Fair Business Practices Act: Amended To Regulate "Going Out Of Business" Sales, T. Wallace
Commerce And Trade Fair Business Practices Act: Amended To Regulate "Going Out Of Business" Sales, T. Wallace
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act defines and sets forth regulations for going out of business sales. The penalties provided under the Fair Business Practices Act of 1975 apply to violations of the new Code subsections.
Corporations, Partnerships And Associations Partnerships: Revise Georgia Uniform Partnership Act, T. Mallory
Corporations, Partnerships And Associations Partnerships: Revise Georgia Uniform Partnership Act, T. Mallory
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act introduces minor revisions and additions to Georgia's Uniform Partnership Act (UPA). The contents of statements of partnership are expanded to include information regarding the admission of new partners, and the Act provides that any such inclusion creates a conclusive presumption that an admittee so named is in fact a partner. The Act also amends the UPA to specify that when the business of a partnership is continued after an agreement of dissolution, partnership property may be applied to the liabilities and obligations of the continuing partnership. Title to the predecessor partnership's real property vests in the continuing partnership …
Crimes And Offenses Dangerous Drugs: Penalties For Anabolic Steroids Increased, T. Wallace
Crimes And Offenses Dangerous Drugs: Penalties For Anabolic Steroids Increased, T. Wallace
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act defines anabolic steroids and provides greater penalties for the distribution of, or the intent to distribute, anabolic steroids.
Food, Drugs And Cosmetics Inspection Warrants: Provide For Practices, Procedures, And Requirements, W. Linkous
Food, Drugs And Cosmetics Inspection Warrants: Provide For Practices, Procedures, And Requirements, W. Linkous
Georgia State University Law Review
The Acts provide for the issuance, execution, and return of inspection warrants and for the practices, procedures, and requirements associated with these warrants. The Acts provide time limits and penalties, identify those inspections not requiring a warrant, make changes in certain exemptions in meat inspection, and specify additional powers for the Commissioner of Agriculture.