Georgia Regulations § 183-1-1-.01 Procedure to Petition for Adoption of Rules

(1) Interested persons may petition the State Election Board requesting the promulgation, amendment, or repeal of a rule. Such petition should be in the form of a letter addressed to the Board setting forth the language of the proposed rule, amendment, or repeal, and, where applicable, the language of the rule sought to be amended or repealed.

(2) Any interested person desiring to petition the Board requesting the promulgation, amendment, or repeal of a rule shall submit three copies of the petition, in writing, by certified or registered mail, to the Chairperson of the State Election Board, 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, S.E., Suite 1104, West Tower, Atlanta, Georgia 30334-9000.

(3) Each petition for the promulgation, amendment, or repeal of a rule made pursuant to the Georgia Administrative Procedures Act should be verified under oath, or in proper behalf of, the petitioner and shall contain:

(4) Within thirty (30) days after submission of a petition for the promulgation, amendment, or repeal of a rule or at the next regularly-scheduled meeting of the State Election Board, the Board shall decide upon the action to be taken. The Board shall not be forced to call a special meeting in order to address such a petition. If such a petition is received less than twenty (20) days before a regularly-scheduled meeting, the Board may vote to address the petition at its next regularly-scheduled meeting. Within ten (10) days after addressing the petition, the Board shall inform the petitioner by mail of the decision reached, and shall either decline to take the action requested, stating its reasons for so declining, or shall initiate rule-making proceedings in accordance with the Georgia Administrative Procedures Act.