For purposes of this subsection, enforcement actions taken by the division pursuant to Code Sections 12-7-12 through 12-7-15 shall not require prior revocation of certification of the jurisdiction or e

History. — Ga. L. 1975, p. 994, § 12; Ga. L. 1980, p. 942, § 8; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1224, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 269, § 27; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1295, § 5; Ga. L. 1994, p. 1650, § 5; Ga. L. 1995, p. 150, § 3; Ga. L. 2003, p. 224, § 5; Ga. L. 2007, p. 127, § 2/HB 463; Ga. L. 2019, p. 606, § 3/HB 493; Ga. L. 2020, p. 488, § 3/SB 445; Ga. L. 2021, p. 922, § 12/HB 497. The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, in paragraph (a)(1), inserted ‘‘or contracts with’’ and substituted ‘‘shall certify’’ for ‘‘may certify’’ near the end; and deleted ‘‘any agreement entered into pursuant to’’ preceding ‘‘subsection (e) of Code Section 12-7-7’’ near the end of the fourth sentence of subsection (c). The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, substituted ‘‘jurisdiction or entity’’ for ‘‘county or municipality’’ throughout this Code section; added paragraph (a)(4); in subsection (b), substituted ‘‘jurisdictions and entities’’ for ‘‘counties and municipalities’’ in the first sentence and substituted ‘‘jurisdiction’s or entity’s’’ for ‘‘county’s or municipality’s’’ in the second sentence; in subsection (c) substituted ‘‘jurisdictions and entities’’ for ‘‘counties and municipalities’’, substituted ‘‘the applicable’’ for ‘‘a governing authority’s’’, inserted ‘‘and regulations’’, and substituted ‘‘the local issuing authority’’ for ‘‘the governing local issuing authority’’ in the third sentence; substituted ‘‘jurisdiction or entity’’ for ‘‘governing authority of any county or municipality’’, inserted ‘‘or regulations’’, and substituted ‘‘that jurisdiction or entity in’’ for ‘‘the governing authority of the county or municipality’’ in the fourth sentence; and substituted ‘‘jurisdiction or entity’’ for ‘‘governing authority of the county or municipality’’ in the fifth sentence. The 2021 amendment, effective May 10, 2021, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, in subsection (a), redesignated former paragraph (a)(4) as present subparagraph (a)(4)(A), and redesignated former divisions (a)(4)(i) and (a)(4)(ii) as present subparagraphs (a)(4)(B) and (a)(4)(C), respectively.