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- GA Atty. Gen. Op. No U97-25. Residency requirements for the election of local school board members cannot be established by board bylaws.
- GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 2003-2. Employees of community service boards hired after July 1, 1996, are not in the classified service of the State Merit System.
- GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 98-20. Updating of crimes and offenses for which the Georgia Crime Information Center is authorized to collect and file fingerprints.
- GA Atty. Gen. Op. No U94-8. House Bill 1074 amending the charter of a municipality may be in violation of the constitutional provision which requires the General Assembly to so act only by general law.
- GA Atty. Gen. Op. No U2000-2. The Governor's power to veto individual appropriations does not include the power to reduce an appropriation.
- GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 98-3. Members of the Professional Standards Commission may not continue to serve past their appointed three-year terms as they are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.
- GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 96-13. The duties of law enforcement officers and emergency medical technicians to facilitate organ donations under O.C.G.A. ¿ 17-6-11(b.1) must be performed harmoniously with the coroner's duty to take charge of the body of a fatally injured individual as required under O.C.G.A. ¿ 45-16-24.
- GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 96-11. The Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority may not assume responsibilities from the Secretary of State pertaining to maintaining records of commissioned notaries public.
- GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 2001-9. Interpretation of the Charter Schools Act amendment relating to state charter schools
- GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 2012-3. Investigators of the Enforcement Division who are certified as peace officers may enforce the new statute of aggravated identity fraud, O.C.G.A. § 16-9-121.1, by arrest and the execution of search warrants provided that it is the result of a criminal investigation of an alleged violation of the workers’ compensation laws of Chapter 9 of Title 34.