Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HB 519 - Drivers' licenses; redefine resident

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1. Jenkins  110th         2. Mobley  86th            3. Streat  167th


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              1/31/95  Read 1st Time                                                                
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Code Sections amended: 40-5-1                                                                       


HB 519                                            LC 21 3141






                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Code Section 40-5-1 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1- 2  Annotated, relating to definitions relative to drivers'
  1- 3  licenses, so as to change the definition of the term
  1- 4  "resident"; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
  1- 5  purposes.

  1- 6       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1- 7  Code Section 40-5-1 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1- 8  Annotated, relating to definitions relative to drivers'
  1- 9  licenses, is amended by striking in its entirety paragraph
  1-10  (15) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

  1-11      "(15) 'Resident' means a person who has a permanent home
  1-12      or abode in Georgia to which, whenever such person is
  1-13      absent, he or she has the intention of returning.  For
  1-14      the purposes of this chapter, there is a rebuttable
  1-15      presumption that the following person is a resident:

  1-16        (A) Any person who accepts employment or engages in
  1-17        any trade, profession, or occupation in Georgia or
  1-18        enters his or her children to be educated in the
  1-19        public schools of Georgia within ten days after the
  1-20        commencement of such employment or education; or

  1-21        (B) Any person who, except for infrequent, brief
  1-22        absences, has been present in the state for 30 or more
  1-23        days;

  1-24      provided, however, that no person shall be considered a
  1-25      resident for purposes of this chapter unless such person
  1-26      is either a United States citizen, resident alien, an
  1-27      alien with U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  1-28      employment authorization or an alien presumed to be
  1-29      residing in the United States under color of law or an
  1-30      alien with legal authorization from the U.S. Immigration
  1-31      and Naturalization Service."




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                                                  LC 21 3141

                         SECTION 2.

  2- 1  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2- 2  repealed.













































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