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Senate Bill 191
By: Senators Brown of the 26th, Johnson of the 1st and Balfour of the 9th

AS PASSED SENATE
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT


To amend Title 8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to buildings and housing, so as to establish the State Memorials Registry and to provide for its operation and maintenance; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.
Title 8 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to buildings and housing, is amended by revising Chapter 1, which is reserved, as follows:

"CHAPTER 1
8-1-1.
(a) There is created the State Memorials Registry which shall be operated and maintained by the Secretary of State. Such registry shall be for the purpose of recording and maintaining a list of persons who voluntarily request that no public building, site, structure, road, highway, street, intersection, interchange, bridge, or other public property be named for them.
(b) Any individual may request to the Secretary of State in writing for his or her name to be placed on the registry and in so doing shall acknowledge that he or she desires that no public building, site, structure, road, highway, street, intersection, interchange, bridge, or other public property be named for him or her.
(c) Prior to naming any public building, site, structure, road, highway, street, intersection, interchange, bridge, or other public property for any person, the jurisdiction seeking to name such public property shall obtain from the Secretary of State a certification as to whether the name of the person for whom such public property is sought to be named is on the registry.
(d) If the name of the person for whom the jurisdiction seeks to name a public building, site, structure, road, highway, street, intersection, interchange, bridge, or other public property is listed on the registry, such jurisdiction shall not name such building, site, structure, road, highway, street, intersection, interchange, bridge, or other property on behalf of such person."

SECTION 2.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.