08 LC 21
9746
Senate
Bill 447
By:
Senator Harbison of the 15th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to general provisions relative to provisions applicable to counties and
municipal corporations, so as to provide that no county or municipal corporation
shall charge a business license fee or administrative fee to certain disabled
veterans; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Chapter
60 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general
provisions relative to provisions applicable to counties and municipal
corporations, is amended by adding a new Code section to read as
follows:
"36-60-26.
(a)
As used in this Code section, the term 'disabled veteran' means a wartime
veteran who was discharged under honorable conditions and who has been
adjudicated by the Department of Veterans Affairs of the United States as being
totally and permanently disabled and entitled to receive service connected
benefits so long as he or she is 100 percent disabled and receiving or entitled
to receive benefits for a 100 percent service connected disability.
(b)
No county or municipal corporation shall assess a business license fee or any
business related administrative fee upon a disabled veteran or upon a
corporation wholly owned by a disabled veteran.
(c)
A county or municipal corporation shall be entitled to demand reasonable proof
of a person´s status as a disabled veteran."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.