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• GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 95-15. Updating of crimes and offenses for which the Georgia Crime Information Center is authorized to collect and file identifying data.
• GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 96-3. Local boards of education are not authorized under current law to contract for health insurance with entities other than the State Personnel Board.
• GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 99-16. While neither the United States nor the Georgia Constitution contains a per se prohibition against teaching about the Bible in public schools, there are very strict legal limitations on how, and in what context, such courses may be taught.
• GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 2003-10. Subsection (a) of O.C.G.A. § 50-17-2 gives agencies, authorities, boards, public corporations, instrumentalities, retirement systems, and other divisions of state government authority to enter into reverse repurchase agreements for certain specified underlying securities.
• GA Atty. Gen. Op. No U95-24. The General Assembly of Georgia may, within constitutional limitations, enact legislation which requires the public libraries of this state to distinguish between materials which are "harmful to minors" and other materials in order to prevent the exposure of such materials to children.
• GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 99-12. Inmate labor may not be used to work for a solid waste management facility that is operated by a private, for-profit entity, where the inmate labor inures to the benefit of that private, for-profit entity.
• GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 99-13. Decisions of the Office of State Administrative Hearings are public records unless they contain information from evidence received in the course of a hearing which has been sealed pursuant to a confidentiality provision.
• GA Atty. Gen. Op. No U97-16. Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 27-3-1(a) applies to persons engaged in hunting who enter upon property of others without permission, but does not apply to intrusions by hunting dogs.
• GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 93-6. County and Municipal taxes otherwise properly assessed pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 33-8-8.1 based on a pre-1991 contract year (i.e. any contract year beginning before January 1, 1991) between an insurance company and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Fund are not prohibited by 5 U.S.C. § 8909(f) regardless of when such tax is payable and/or collected.
• GA Atty. Gen. Op. No 95-8. Request for an Official Interpretation of O.C.G.A. § 43-9-16(b).