{"id":"DUT-GA-007","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Georgia","state":"GA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"General Assembly of Georgia (Georgia Emergency Management Act; Ga. L. 1951, p. 224, as amended through Ga. L. 2011, p. 701 (HB 339) and later)","authority":"Title 38, Chapter 3, Article 3, Part 1 (Emergency Powers of the Governor)","instrument":"O.C.G.A. section 38-3-51","title":"Emergency powers of Governor; termination of emergency; limitations in energy emergency; immunity","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMER","STAY","CLOSE","CAP","DUTY"],"addressees":["persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises (occupancy control); the Department of Public Health (direction)"],"clause":"(c) The Governor shall have and may exercise... the following additional emergency powers: (1) To enforce all laws, rules, and regulations relating to emergency management... (d)... he may:... (7) Control ingress and egress to and from a disaster area, the movement of persons within the area, and the occupancy of premises therein...","enforcement":"Violation of any order made under the section is a misdemeanor (section 38-3-7, Ex. DUT-GA-006)","functions":[],"notes":"On a declaration of a state of emergency for a \u0027public health emergency\u0027 (subsection (a), which requires the Governor to call the General Assembly into special session; the Assembly concurred on March 16, 2020 by HR 4EX), the Governor may enforce all emergency-management laws, suspend regulatory statutes (d)(1), \u0027control... the movement of persons within the area, and the occupancy of premises therein\u0027 (d)(7), and \u0027direct the Department of Public Health to coordinate all matters pertaining to the response of the state to a public health emergency\u0027 (i)(1); subsection (i)(2) supplies due process for quarantine and vaccination programs. Every order in Exs. GA-001 to GA-046 was issued under this section, and every one bound its addressees under section 38-3-7 (Ex. DUT-GA-006). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2024/T37-T39%20(V28)%202021.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":2723495,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-GA","url":"/library/DUT-GA-007","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-GA-007","citation":"General Assembly of Georgia (Georgia Emergency Management Act; Ga. L. 1951, p. 224, as amended through Ga. L. 2011, p. 701 (HB 339) and later), O.C.G.A. section 38-3-51 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-007)","stateName":"Georgia","related":["GA-001","GA-046","DUT-GA-006","GA-039","GA-041"]}