Georgia Senate - 1995/1996 Sessions

SB 739 - Bd. of Regis. for Professional En- gineers,Land Surveyors - attorney

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1. Walker  22nd


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SB 739                                             LC 10 1630






                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Code Section 43-15-6 of the Official Code of
  1- 2  Georgia Annotated, relating to the powers of the State Board
  1- 3  of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land
  1- 4  Surveyors, so as to authorize such board to employ a
  1- 5  full-time attorney to assist the board in carrying out its
  1- 6  functions; to provide for duties for the board's legal
  1- 7  assistant; to provide for the qualifications and
  1- 8  compensation of such legal assistant; to provide for
  1- 9  applicability with respect to the authority of the Attorney
  1-10  General; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting
  1-11  laws; and for other purposes.

  1-12       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1-13  Code Section 43-15-6 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1-14  Annotated, relating to the powers of the State Board of
  1-15  Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors,
  1-16  is amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection (c)
  1-17  to read as follows:

  1-18    "(c) In addition to the powers provided in subsection (a)
  1-19    of this Code section, the board shall be authorized to
  1-20    employ an attorney to serve as a legal assistant and
  1-21    counselor to the board.  The legal assistant shall be
  1-22    authorized to review complaints; to present complaints to
  1-23    the board; to represent the board in administrative
  1-24    hearings involving the disciplining or sanctioning of a
  1-25    person registered with the board, the denial of a
  1-26    registration to a person applying for registration with
  1-27    the board, or action against any unregistered person for
  1-28    providing services that require registration; or to
  1-29    perform such other duties as may be assigned by the board
  1-30    or its executive director.  The position of legal
  1-31    assistant shall be in the unclassified service of the
  1-32    State Merit System of Personnel Administration.  The
  1-33    person appointed as legal assistant shall be appointed by
  1-34    the board, shall serve at the pleasure of the board, and


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                                                  LC 10 1630

  2- 1    shall be paid a salary set by the board and the
  2- 2    joint-secretary. No person may be appointed as legal
  2- 3    assistant unless he or she is a member of the State Bar of
  2- 4    Georgia and has been a practicing attorney for at least
  2- 5    five years.  The provisions of this subsection do not
  2- 6    affect the authority of the Attorney General to act as the
  2- 7    legal adviser of the board and to be the exclusive
  2- 8    representative of the board in all courts of law."

                         SECTION 2.

  2- 9  This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the
  2-10  Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.

                         SECTION 3.

  2-11  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2-12  repealed.
































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