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Cellphone Fee

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

E-Verify This in Your Road Cart

The new year brings new laws on immigration, cellphone fees and the rules of the road.

The new year has ushered in the next phase in Georgia’s anti-immigration law, a new fee for prepaid cellphone service and the prospect for golf carts rolling through city streets statewide. Most laws in Georgia go into effect when they are signed by the governor or on July 1, the start of the state’s fiscal year, but Jan. 1 does have some legislative significance—particularly if you’re a doctor with a 7-year-old child and you want to drive your golf cart to the hospital where you employ more than 500 people in a drought-stricken area that hopes for a tech-driven economic revival. Read Patch’s rundown of the legal meaning of the new laws, and it will all make sense (click on each bill number to read the full legislation). H.B. 87, the …

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