What Is the Georgia Publication?

Overview of Georgia’s Publication Requirements

  • GEORGIA Magazine:

    • Monthly subscribers: half a million
    • Readership: over 1 million
    • Official publication of Georgia Electric Membership Corp
    • Serves the state’s forty-one electric cooperatives
  • Georgia’s Early Newspapers:

    • First newspaper: Georgia Gazette (1763-1776)
    • Atlanta’s major daily newspaper: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
    • Owned by Cox Enterprises
  • Georgia Government Publications Program:

    • The University of Georgia Libraries oversight
    • State agencies submit copies
    • Digitization at the Digital Library of Georgia
  • Impact of Archives:

    • Enables data mining and historical insights
    • Example: North Carolina’s slave advertisements archive

Publication Requirements in Other States

  • Publication Requirement States:

    • Arizona, Nebraska, and New York
    • Arizona: 3-week notice
    • New York: 6-week notice in two newspapers
    • Newspapers to be in the county of the LLC’s place of business
  • Other State Requirements:

    • Pennsylvania and Georgia: corporations
    • California, Georgia, and more: DBAs
    • Failure consequences: fines, licenses revoked
    • Affidavit filing after compliance
    • Purpose: community awareness of new businesses
    • Relevance questioned in the digital age

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