Bill Text: GA HB1256 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Western Area Regional Radio System Authority; remove City of Douglasville and add Coweta County as a member

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-11 - Effective Date [HB1256 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB1256-Introduced.html

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12 LC 40 0089/AP

House Bill 1256 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE)

By: Representatives Hembree of the 67th, Hightower of the 68th, Nix of the 69th, Smith of the 70th, Cooke of the 18th, and others

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend an Act creating the Western Area Regional Radio System Authority, approved May 17, 2004 (Ga. L. 2004, p. 4521), so as to remove the City of Douglasville as a member of such authority; to add Coweta County as a member of such authority; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

An Act creating the Western Area Regional Radio System Authority, approved May 17, 2004 (Ga. L. 2004, p. 4521), is amended by revising subsections (b) and (e) of Section 3 as follows:

"(b) The authority shall consist of eight members who shall be appointed by the establishing local governments in the following manner: (1) Carroll County, Georgia, shall appoint two members to the authority; (2) Coweta County, Georgia, shall appoint two members to the authority; (3) Haralson County, Georgia, shall appoint two members to the authority; and (4) Heard County, Georgia, shall appoint two members to the authority. The members of the authority who were in office as of January 1, 2012, shall continue in office for the terms to which they were appointed and until successors are appointed and qualified as provided in this Act. Thereafter, all appointments shall be made for terms of four years and until successors are appointed and qualified. Immediately after such appointments, the members of the authority shall enter upon their duties. To be eligible for appointment as a member of the authority, a person shall be at least 21 years of age, shall have been a resident of the jurisdiction of the establishing local government which appointed him or her for at least two years prior to the date of his or her appointment, and shall not have been convicted of a felony. Any member of the authority may be selected and appointed to succeed himself or herself."

"(e) Four members of the authority shall constitute a quorum with at least three of the members being from different establishing local governments. No vacancy on the authority shall impair the right of the quorum to exercise all the rights and perform all the duties of the authority."

SECTION 2.

Said Act is further amended by revising paragraph (4) of Section 4 as follows:

"(4) 'Establishing local governments' means the Board of Commissioners of Carroll County, Georgia; the Board of Commissioners of Coweta County, Georgia; the Board of Commissioners of Haralson County, Georgia; and the Board of Commissioners of Heard County, Georgia."

SECTION 3.

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