GA Code § 1-1-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-1-1. Enactment of Code

  The statutory portion of the codification of Georgia laws prepared by the Code Revision Commission and the Michie Company pursuant to a contract entered into on June 19, 1978, is enacted and shall have the effect of statutes enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia. The statutory portion and numbering and arrangement of such codification, along with supplementary content determined to be useful to users, shall be published by the state and when so published shall be known and may be cited as the "Official Code of Georgia Annotated."   The following matter contained in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, including all supplements and revised volumes thereof, shall be considered enacted by the General Assembly:   Statutory text; and   Arrangement and numbering system, including, but not limited to, title, chapter, article, part, subpart, Code section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, division, and subdivision numbers and designations.     The following matter contained in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, including all supplements and revised volumes thereof, shall not be considered enacted by the General Assembly, shall bear no additional weight or effect, and shall not be construed to have the imprimatur of the General Assembly by virtue of such inclusion in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated:   Case annotations;   Research references, including, but not limited to:   Law reviews;   Collateral references to secondary sources;   Opinions of the Georgia Attorney General;   Advisory opinions of the State Bar; and   Cross-references;     Captions;   Catchlines;   Headings;   Title and chapter analyses;   History lines;   Repeal lines;   Editorial notes;   Amendment notes;   Code Commission notes;   Effective date notes;   Tables;   User's Guide;   General Index;   Volume indices;   Indices related to local and special laws;   Conversion tables;   Rules and regulations of state agencies, departments, boards, commissions, or other entities;   Material in brackets or parentheses and editorial, delayed effective date, effect of amendment, or other similar notes within the text of a Code section which has been added by the publisher in order to explain or to prevent a misapprehension concerning the contents of the Code section; and   Any other matter published in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated which is not included in subsection (b) of this Code section.      (Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 1; Ga. L. 2021, p. 916, § 1/SB 238.)    The 2021 amendment,  effective July 1, 2021, substituted the present provisions of this Code section for the former provisions, which read: "The statutory portion of the codification of Georgia laws prepared by the Code Revision Commission and the Michie Company pursuant to a contract entered into on June 19, 1978, is enacted and shall have the effect of statutes enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia. The statutory portion of such codification shall be merged with annotations, captions, catchlines, history lines, editorial notes, cross-references, indices, title and chapter analyses, and other materials pursuant to the contract and shall be published by authority of the state pursuant to such contract and when so published shall be known and may be cited as the 'Official Code of Georgia Annotated.'"   Cross references.   - Powers and duties of Code Revision Commission regarding publication of Code, §§ 28-9-3,28-9-5.    Effect of reenactment of the Code, § 28-9-5.    Authorization to use state emblem on cover of official Code, § 50-3-8(b).   Editor's notes.   - The Michie Company, referred to in this Code section, now operates under the trade name LexisNexis/srs, a division of ReedElsevier. For the Acts reenacting the Official Code of Georgia Annotated as amended by the text and numbering contained in the 1982 through 2019 supplements, see Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 54; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 54; Ga. L. 1986, p. 10, § 54; Ga. L. 1987, p. 3, § 54; Ga. L. 1988, p. 13, § 54; Ga. L. 1989, p. 14, § 54; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 54; Ga. L. 1991, p. 94, § 54; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 5; Ga. L. 1993, p. 91, § 54; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 54; Ga. L. 1995, p. 10, § 54; Ga. L. 1996, p. 6, § 54; Ga. L. 1997, p. 143, § 54; Ga. L. 1998, p. 128, § 54; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 54; Ga. L. 2000, p. 136, § 54; Ga. L. 2001, p. 4, § 54; Ga. L. 2002, p. 415, § 54; Ga. L. 2003, p. 140, § 54; Ga. L. 2004, p. 631, § 54; Ga. L. 2005, p. 60, § 54; Ga. L. 2006, p. 72, § 54; Ga. L. 2007, p. 47, § 54; Ga. L. 2008, p. 324, § 54; Ga. L. 2009, p. 8, § 54; Ga. L. 2010, p. 878, § 54; Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 54; Ga. L. 2012, p. 775, § 54, Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 54; Ga. L. 2014, p. 866, § 54; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 54; Ga. L. 2016, p. 864, § 54/HB 737; Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 54/HB 323; Ga. L. 2018, p. 1112, § 54/SB 365; Ga. L. 2019, p. 1056, § 54/SB52; Ga. L. 2020, p. 493, § 54/SB 429; and Ga. L. 2021, p. 922, § 54/HB 497, respectively.   Law reviews.   - For article, "Researching Georgia Law," see 9 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 585 (1993). For article, "Researching Georgia Law," see 34 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 741 (2015). For article, " Code Revision Commission v. Public.Re- source.Org and the Fight Over Copyright Protection for Annotations and Commentary," see 54 Ga. L. Rev. 111 (2019). For discussion of the work of the Code Revision Commission in making the Code, see 18 Ga. St. B. J. 102 (1982).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   Official Code publication controls over unofficial compilation.   - Attorneys who cite unofficial publication of 1981 Code do so at their peril; in any situation wherein defendant's compilation differs in any way from statutory provisions of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated as published by Michie (now Lexis-Nexis®), it is the Michie publication which is controlling. Georgia ex rel. Gen. Ass'y v. Harrison Co., 548 F. Supp. 110 (N.D. Ga. 1982), orders vacated, 559 F. Supp. 37 (N.D. Ga. 1983).    Cited in Axson v. State, 174 Ga. App. 236, 329 S.E.2d 566 (1985).